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New York City bans large, sugary drinks
In a first-in-the-nation move, the NYC Board of Health has enacted limits on the size of sodas that businesses like fast-food outlets can sell.
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New walkability scoring site factors in safety, attractiveness, and hills
Walk Score is a wonderful thing, but it is not perfect. Therefore, it now has some competitors. The newest would-be Walk Score killer is Walkonomics, a site that tells you more than just how close you are to shops and restaurants and other places to which you might want to walk. FastCoExist explains: Ideally, you […]
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Mr. ‘Shrink the City’ goes to Washington
Dan Kildee, best known for his efforts to downsize Flint, Mich., is about to take his urban agenda to Congress.
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Climate change could make summer crime waves worse
When temperatures go up, crime often does, too -- which means that as our summers get hotter, more cities could see the kind of violence Chicago experienced this year.
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On Sept. 11, 2012, the Times asks: Is New York ready for disaster?
What is New York City doing to prevent disasters brought on by climate change and rising seas? Not enough so far.
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Reality TV can now give you hantavirus (Update: Or not)
You know those nice, selfless, saintly people on TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive, the ones that help their absolutely insane and generally repulsive neighbors clean out 46 years of TV Guides/foot soaking machines/animal carcasses? And you’ve always thought, shit, I would never do that, I must be a selfish asshole? Well, you may well be, but it […]
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Beautiful street art turns footsteps into trees
As income levels in China increase, more people are driving cars, and China Environmental Protection Foundation hired DDB China to come up with a way to hammer into people’s heads that walking can be a better choice than driving. The result was beautiful — a public art campaign that had pedestrians “painting” leaves onto a […]
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This awesome athlete used a bikeshare bike to compete in the Nation’s Triathlon
Over the weekend, Jefferson Smith, a 42-year-old triathlete, competed in the Nation’s Triathlon in Washington, D.C. He did not come in first or second or third in the race, perhaps because his ride for the 25-mile cycling portion was not exactly a top-of-the-line racing bike. But he gets the blue ribbon for First in Awesome […]
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Brave driver confronts Portland’s rabid cyclists
A businessman says he's had it with Portland's scofflaw cyclists. His solution: Require them to get licenses and registrations, just like car drivers.
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Smart parking meters in San Francisco charge more than $5/hr
Under “dynamic pricing” schemes, the more people who want a parking spot, the more it costs. If it works, it could keep more cars off the streets.
