Urban Planning

The Mostly Delightful Yet Somewhat Harrowing Walk from Homewood to Downtown

Around 3pm on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, I sat at my downtown Birmingham Innovation Depot office and talked to several co-workers who decided to stay the night at work. It was the Snowpocalypse and…

The reason Homewood streets are worth fighting for

Riding bikes to school

Lately, I’ve been riding bicycles with my kids to take them to school. Homewood is perfect for riding to school for two…

Real Homewood Neighborhood Conversation on Dead-ending Roads

Backstory

On Nextdoor, for Hollywood, I picked my lowest-cost proposal for improving streets and pitched it to them. I wanted to know how my neighbors felt about changes. This is the thread…

Source of Homewood’s traffic issues

Homewood is a small 8.301 mi² city with 25,000 people that is 3 miles south of Birmingham’s business district. The majority of people who work in Birmingham’s business district live to the south. When thinking of Birmingham regional population, Homewood is near the…

How drivers make route decisions…

A driver is really a financial analyst, instead of money, they are gambling time. A driver looks at the road ahead and estimates the duration of time to travel the distance of that road. If a driver knows an alternate route, then the driver will compare that time to the…