Our Work
Our work.
One problem, three instruments. Public trust is eroding because public institutions too often cannot deliver. The Institute answers with a law, a book and a doctrine, each built to be used by the people who do the work.
Projects
What we are building.
Active
FRAME for Mobility
A from-scratch rewrite of the federal surface transportation law: how the system is funded, how projects are chosen, and how results are counted. Written with the practitioners who build and use the system.
Published
Plan for Planning
The Lost Art of the Plan: A Guide to Seeing the City Whole. A moral argument, a practical manual and a call to action for the planners and public servants who shape the city.
In Development
Crafting the New Civil Service
The doctrine behind the work: the classic principles of the civil service, upgraded for a high-velocity age. In development, with a first look coming.
Library
Essays, drafts and reports.
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Download (PDF)
FRAME for Mobility: Introduction
The case for rewriting the federal surface transportation law, in 19 pages: the system Americans rely on, and the settlement that no longer funds it.
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planforplanning.org
The Lost Art of the Plan
A Guide to Seeing the City Whole. The Plan for Planning book: 112 pages, eight chapters in four parts, published by the Institute.
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About the draft
The FRAME Act
The legislative text of FRAME for Mobility, drafted in the open with practitioners. Read the introduction first; the Act is the working draft it introduces.
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Read the essay
The Quiet Crisis
The foundational essay of the Institute: the slow erosion of our global civic service, and why delivery, not argument, is what rebuilds trust.
Follow
Follow the work.
New essays, drafts and notes on civic service as craft, published on the Institute's Substack.