Sidewalk Talk

A personal health update from Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff.

If developers can figure out what the “S” of ESG means for real estate, it’s not just they who will benefit — our cities will, too.

How can we bring the benefits of manufacturing back to disinvested neighborhoods — without the drawbacks?

Can a new generation of tech innovation ecosystems spur more equitable economic growth?

What if, instead of being negatively impacted by a neighborhood’s growth, residents could benefit from it instead?

A new study explored whether a stricter inclusionary zoning policy impacted the city’s housing supply. Here’s what they found.

New economic models could help renters, particularly immigrants and new arrivals, become owners — and access multi-generational wealth as…

To understand how real estate development could become more inclusive tomorrow, we have to understand how it works today.

Stanford engineers have designed a prototype called the Augmented Cane to “improve independence for people with impaired vision.”

A new study estimates that replacing large vehicles with standard ones would have saved more than 8,100 lives since 2000. What can be done?

A new study puts the rental premium of view access at about 6 percent, guiding commercial developers and city policy alike.

A new study found several design tweaks that made suburban residents more likely to accept denser development — to a point.

A new study finds that children who moved away from high-poverty urban areas had far lower hospital rates for asthma and mental health…

The historical case of New York City’s Croton Aqueduct reminds us why innovative infrastructure needs innovative policy.

A Sidewalk Talk with Nico CEO and co-founder Max Levine

We’re working with developers across the U.S. to create more sustainable, innovative, and equitable projects.

A Sidewalk Talk Q&A with Replica CEO Nick Bowden.

In the second PMX 15 post, we describe how we preserved production efficiency and sustainability without sacrificing a building’s beauty.

In the first part of our PMX 15 series, we describe the design choices that would help our timber building withstand a major earthquake.