Cincinnati's urban core continues to grow as a result of a strong community, strong city leadership, and efforts from groups like 3CDC.

A new website shows you exactly where you can go in under 30 minutes using mass transit.

A rare positive look at the positive changes in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine urban neighborhood from our anti-city newspaper.

In the 1920's, "AAA and other auto clubs [...] funded safety patrols that taught kids they had to stop for traffic, not the other way around."

Turning suburban malls into "the downtowns that the suburbs never had"

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation confirms urban residents subsidize rural transportation infrastructure.

The neighborhood that's home to Seattle's first modern streetcar line is growing fast, and investor Paul Allen wants the ability to build taller buildings.

The editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer are either clueless and out-of-touch with reality or actually attempting to start a modern day Red Scare by publishing this mindless letter-to-the-editor.

Columbus, Ohio's I-670 cap is cited as a model for hiding urban expressways.

"Simply put, there has been a profound structural shift — a reversal of what took place in the 1950s, when drivable suburbs boomed and flourished as center cities emptied and withered."

Four incumbents ousted. Three newcomers voted in. Overall, great news for Cincinnati.

"Homeowners often engage in NIMBYism because they are conservative, risk-averse, and are cautious out of fear that the project might fail… Renters often engage in the same behavior, not because of fear it will fail, but because they're afraid the same project might actually succeed."

Let's hold politicians accountable for their claims -- "Ohio's smoking ban will hurt businesses" or "the Fountain Square renovation will be a boondoggle -- that are proven wrong.

"His goal for the Lager House is for it to be, in his words, the best brewpub in the world."

"If the national office of the NAACP had any idea what Chris Smitherman is doing to their brand here in Cincinnati, they would’ve shown him the door years ago."

Cincinnati's high walkability is exactly why rail transit would be a prefect match for the city.

StreetsBlog covers the latest anti-streetcar measures in Cincinnati

Update on the most recent developments in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

The baby boomer generation built their entire lives around the concept of being able to drive for everything... so what happens when they can't drive any more?

Several Hamilton County neighborhoods would rather reject federal funding than allow "undesirables" to live in their communities.

"While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars."

Over-the-Rhine Blog talks to city council candidate and OTR resident Chris Seelbach.

"They are expected today to vote on a resolution to bring the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an expeditious end so that the $126 billion per year those conflicts cost can be redeployed at home—paying for things like firefighters and police officers, roads and transit service, education and children’s services, all of which are being slashed around the country."

Why spend $3 billion on another new bridge when we could give people inventives to carpool or take transit?

Will Apple's new campus stifle innovation in the long run?

Your quick vote could help the Over-the-Rhine Foundation win $25,000 to put towards saving historic architecture in Cincinnati's urban core.

"Businesses are beginning to recognize that many employees care less about living in sprawling estates and more about living in diverse areas with restaurants and entertainment within walking distance."

Phase two opens, doubling the length of the world's most famous elevated park.

UBS considers relocating from the 'burbs back to the city because that's where their employees live and would prefer to work.

"Highly-educated young workers, the life’s blood of many industries, have been flocking to center cities in recent years... They are voting with their feet for a hip, high-density walkable lifestyle and a reverse commute to the ‘burbs is not in the cards for most of them."

Even in 1938, we knew that the Interstate Highway System could never support itself financially.

Increasing density can be a good thing, but not at the expense of historic preservation.

"UBS is having buyer’s remorse. It turns out that a suburban location has become a liability in recruiting the best and brightest young bankers, who want to live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, not in Stamford, Conn., which is about 35 miles northeast of Midtown. The firm has also discovered that it would be better to be closer to major clients in the city."

"Mama Lo Hizo Mexican Cafe and Grocery will be open in the main market house near Luken’s Poultry, Fish & Seafood by Aug. 1"

"DeSales Corner was historically Cincinnati’s second most prominent business district outside of the Central Business District downtown."

"If you can’t behave like a decent neighbor/human being, I wouldn’t want you living down the street either, regardless of what it does to my property values."

"In nearly every case, New York products were cheaper than in places such as Memphis, Indianapolis and Milwaukee."