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When the man in the street is your friend
Tom was always there outside the bodega, until he wasn't. And we realized what we had lost.
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In Los Angeles, people come out to play when streets are closed to cars [VIDEO]
"We can take a ... street that's usually filled with cars and congestion, blowing out pollution all around, and clear every car from that street, and create a canvas of what a community can look like when we get the cars off the streets and let people enjoy them in the way we are today." That's the mayor of Los Angeles talking.
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NYC to use hybrid Zipcars for city employees
New York is the latest municipality to try car-sharing for city employees as a strategy for reducing costs and the number of automobiles on the street.
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Farmers and travelers in a tar-sands boomtown
Stratospheric wages draw laborers from around the world to Fort McMurray, Alberta. So how does a booming oil workers' camp become a town?
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The city that said no to garbage
If you want to keep garbage out of landfills, you have to stop thinking about it as garbage. Instead, think of it as resources. This is how Jack Macy thinks. He developed San Francisco’s trailblazing composting program and is currently Zero Waste Coordinator for the city. Here, he shares the city’s secrets to success.
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San Francisco watches its waste line
Most cities send thousands of tons of unwanted flotsam and jetsam to landfills every day. But in San Francisco, garbage is treated like a resource that shouldn't be wasted. And that means formulating a plan to reduce the city's garbage output to zero. Yes, that's right: zero.
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Better cities could save $31 billion a year
A new report by CEO’s For Cities shows how access to destinations is more important than how fast you can drive in your car while you are trying to get there. The report, titled, “Driven Apart: How Sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making things worse“ makes a couple of points, […]
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How NYC's streets are being reclaimed from the automobile [VIDEO]
The last three years have seen an incredible transformation of New York's streetscape. More than 200 miles of bike lanes have been added, while Times Square and many other formerly car-clogged spaces have been turned into havens for pedestrians.
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There's safety in numbers for cyclists
You might reasonably think that the number of bicycle crashes would skyrocket as more people take to the streets on two wheels. It's a fine, common-sense assumption -- that happens to be wrong.
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The Cincinnati subway that never was [VIDEO]
Today, some people look at the decision to halt the Cincinnati subway in 1925 as fatally short-sighted. "If they had finished this system, we may have actually held on to some of our businesses that have left. Cincinnati downtown may have been a viable institution."
