Sarah Goodyear
Sarah Goodyear has written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Urban Wonk
Why There's No War Between Drivers and Cyclists in the Netherlands
Dutch people aren't born knowing the rules of the road. They're taught from an early age.
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Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going
A new study suggests vehicular travel affects children's ability to navigate their neighborhood and connect to their community.
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Fighting Sexual Violence in India with 'Girlcott' Power
Women in Gurgaon refrain from shopping to demand stronger safety regulations.
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Road Traffic 'Single Biggest Source of Fatality' for Young People Worldwide
Traffic fatalities disproportionately affect children in developing countries.
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Slowing Down Cars Saves Lives. So Why Is Toronto's Mayor So Opposed?
Lowering speed limits can greatly cut down on pedestrian injuries. But Rob Ford thinks one such proposal is "nuts."
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Why City Kids Need to Play in the Street
Traditional street play is good for kids precisely because it allows them to figure out how to use their environment in creative ways on their own.
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How to Make Transit (and Biking and Walking) Sexy
Urban designer and writer Darrin Nordahl thinks it's time for advocates of alternative transportation to stop trying to appeal to reason and go for the gut instead.
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Oslo Takes its Streets Back from Terror, with a Song
More than 40,000 people showed up in the rain in a show of defiance against admitted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
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Is Traffic Making Us Lonely?
Long before the invention of social media, a man named Donald Appleyard was investigating how automotive traffic isolates us from one another.
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Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours
By seizing a historical moment, ordinary Danish and Dutch citizens were able to change the course of development in their urban centers.
