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Martin Zimmerman

Martin Zimmerman writes from Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a frequent contributor to Urban Land on a range of smart growth, urban place-making and multi-modal transportation topics. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, APA Planning, Urban Ecology, Landscape Architecture and Preservation magazines. He currently directs the Green Mobility Planning Studio USA.

He can be reached at greenmobilityplanning@gmail.com.

Articles by this author

  • In Print: Sustainable Transportation Planning

    April 19, 2013

    Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable Transportation Planning attempts to grasp in shorthand form the big picture—one that integrates motor vehicles with bicycling, transit, parking, car sharing, transit-oriented design of stations, and other considerations.

  • In Print: The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

    February 27, 2013

    This remarkably perceptive book, written by Alan Ehrenhalt, a former executive editor of Governing magazine, not only validates a grand diagram that has been reshaping and re­­arranging metropolitan areas from downtowns to the exurbs, but it successfully delivers the reader to an unfolding real-life scenography.

  • In Print: Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

    February 20, 2013

    Authored by the cohost of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep, this story is an account of his firsthand experience reporting on the daily tremors in modern-day Karachi.

  • Around the World on Two Wheels

    September 12, 2012

    Bike sharing in the United States may not yet be as popular as in Europe or China, but two-wheelers are making tracks in high-cost cities.

  • Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

    October 12, 2011

    In his book Arrival City, Doug Saunders examines the receptor communities for those fleeing the crushing subsistence of a farm economy, places stereotyped as dead-end zones of entrapment and crime.

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