The Single Most Important Element In Creating Good Cities

If we get Right of Ways right, almost everything else has a chance to go right, too.

A beautifully narrow street in Barcelona

Setting goals is an important part of life, and I don’t intend to neglect the big stuff. This year, my goal is to get urbanists, and ideally the broader public, to understand one key idea about urban design: Right of Ways are the single most influential factor in how people experience the built environment.

A Right…