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Urbanist Bracket Challenge: We Have a Winner!

The stunning conclusion to the pedestrian streets vs. bike lanes nail-biter.

Now that the Unpaid Pro Basketball Championship is out of the way, we can finally get to the competition that has consumed much of my desktop for the last month: the Urbanist Toolkit Bracket Challenge of 2013.

From the moment Amanda Erickson and I began arranging index cards at an empty desk, we knew we were onto something -- something that might infuriate much of our readership with its reductionist, head-to-head framework of the concepts we hold so dear in our thinking about urban design.