urban design
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Cafés will be popping up on the streets of New York
The New York City Department of Transportation is going to make it easier for you to park your rear end at a sidewalk café by taking away a bit of parking for cars.
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If you want a model city, fix the one you've got
Cities achieve greatness because they are containers for difference -- places where people and ideas bump into each other, where assumptions are constantly challenged, where classes and attitudes rub shoulders and jostle each other. So how do we make cities smarter (in the sustainability sense) without building a world of sterile municipalities from the ground up?
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How the places we live make us sick, and how they could heal us instead
Our built environment is quite literally driving us down the road to obesity and stress. A group of planners in Vancouver wants to turn that around.
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How automobiles make our streets less livable [VIDEO]
Sure, you know who Jane Jacobs is. But have you ever heard of Donald Appleyard? In his pioneering book Livable Streets, Appleyard documented how cars destroy a sense of neighborhood. A new video brings his research back to life.