cities
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Why you love the places you live, in your own words
Last week I put out a question to you, dear readers: Why do you love the place you live? The response from you was immediate and tremendous.
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While climate talks drag on, cities must adapt or die
In cities like Norfolk, Va., rising sea levels are not a hypothesis -- they're an unpleasant reality that has to be dealt with, now.
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Cities, states start to adopt climate change survival strategies
In California, an advisory panel recommends preparing for rising sea levels, along with more wildfires, heat waves, and water shortages.
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Why do you love the place you live? We want to know
Tell us what makes you care about the place you live, or the place where you grow up. We'll publish your responses.
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Find out where your city is most walkable with Walk Score's new heat maps
Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable.
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Older urban preservationists risk becoming urban fossils
For young urban advocates in Washington, D.C., change is good. Their elders, traumatized by the 20th century, have trouble looking forward.
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Can a neighborhood be too walkable?
Walk Score is an increasingly popular tool for measuring the livability of a neighborhood. But maybe more people would warm to the idea of density if it weren't quite so -- dense.
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Young greens, old greens, and cities
San Francisco Chronicle columnist John King has a smart piece on the "generation gap" between old-school environmentalists suspicious of urban development and younger greens who see density as essential.
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A Tokyo house built on a piece of land the size of a parking space
In Japan, the trend toward tiny homes is driven by harsh economic reality more than any desire to live "sustainably." It's a good example of how people can adapt to a world of diminishing resources -- the same world we all live in.