A city that acted
Paris
Built the fifteen-minute city. Reclaimed streets from cars. Cleaning the Seine so residents can swim in it again.
The Livable City
A Blueprint for a World-Class DC. Built for neighbors, rivers, and the future.
The Livable City
A Blueprint for a World-Class DC. Built for neighbors, rivers, and the future.
verything in DC is connected to everything else. A neighborhood without bus lanes pushes its workers into cars, which makes every other neighborhood's traffic worse. A ward that loses its tree canopy makes the whole city hotter. A broken Metro escalator in Anacostia makes a morning commute longer for a nurse in Petworth. A grocery store that closes in Ward 8 raises the diabetes rate of the children growing up around it. When the system fails part of the city, it fails the whole city.
Explore the Plan
What a livable DC looks like.
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Fifteen of the thirty-eight fights in the Plan, made visible. The rest are in The Plan.
DC sits at the same table as these cities. It has been left behind.
The world is moving. We are waiting.
A city that acted
Vienna
A century of publicly owned social housing. Six in ten residents live in homes the city owns or subsidizes.
A city that acted
Barcelona
Superblocks turned intersections back into living rooms. Less traffic, more trees, cleaner air on the same streets.
A city that acted
Medellín
Built its most beautiful libraries in its poorest neighborhoods. Cut its homicide rate 95% in a generation.
A city that acted
Curitiba
Built a bus system that moves like a subway. Proof that great transit doesn't require a generation of tunneling.
The Framework
38 fights. Three sections. One framework.
The Plan is structured around what makes a city livable. Streets, homes, and the power underneath both. Read end-to-end, or jump to the fights that matter to you.