With the advance in the design of the new layout for K Street in downtown DC (see recent article in The Washington Post) and the introduction a few years ago of the Circulator service, Washington …

This announcement is a little last-minute, but there’s still time to apply! Hurry, deadline is tomorrow!
CarbonfreeDC, a grassroots initiative dedicated to lowering local carbon emissions in the D.C. area, is now accepting applications for an …

Buses are a bit like the Rodney Dangerfield of public transportation: they don’t get no respect.  In general, the smart growth community holds up rail transit as the paragon of public transportation, and bicycling as …

Image via Casey Trees YouTube channel.
While Washington DC’s annual Cherry Blossom festival draws in crowds from all over the world, most of the year the city’s foliage goes relatively unnoticed. Casey Trees, a local non-profit, …

Statues of Guyasuta and George Washington stare each other down on Mt. Washington. Photo by meironke.
I make no apologies for being from the greatest metropolitan area in the country. Living in Pittsburgh absolutely infuses every …

Photo by Thomas Hawk.
Now that Noah is gone, we’ll need a few more bloggers to keep TheCityFix DC going! We’re happy to recruit volunteer writers all year long. If you want to get paid, consider …

Three months ago we launched TheCityFix DC, the first local blog in TheCityFix’s network. It’s been quite a lot of fun writing for it but, as they say, all good things must come to an …

TheCityFix DC talks a lot about how we’d like to see D.C. change. We’re also committed to making sure that your voices get heard. That (and the similar names!) is why we’ve teamed up with …

Joel Kotkin and his website New Geography can be frustrating—Kotkin can be an apologist for sprawl—but they can also be invaluable. That latter quality was on full display today in Prof. Ali Modarres’ expert breakdown …

Conventional wisdom on urban history states a few things exceedingly clearly. Perhaps the most axiomatic belief about cities is that brutalist architecture is not only ugly but thoroughly destructive. Boston’s City Hall Plaza is perhaps …