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Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again
This downtown green space in Seoul was once a looming, congested elevated freeway.Photo: Kyle NishiokaCross-posted from Sightline’s Daily Score blog. As a sustainability-loving transportation planner, I was thrilled to learn […]
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Hot-and-cold running crisis: cities, water, and climate change
Woman carrying water through the Dharavi slum of Mumbai.Photo: Meena KadriCross-posted from Cool Green Science. Imagine living on less than a bathtub of water for all your daily needs: drinking, […]
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China’s ghost cities and the biggest property bubble of all time
A couple of months ago, a lot of people were passing around the news about China’s plan to create a megacity that would be home to 42 million people, the […]
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Wisconsin Gov. Walker rejected high speed rail but wants the money anyway
Before he was the guy who tried to kill Wisconsin unions, Scott Walker was the guy who campaigned on a promise to kill high-speed rail in Wisconsin. There wasn’t a […]
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Tearing down the highways that choke our cities [VIDEO]
The power of an elevated freeway to dominate and degrade a city’s streets is overwhelming. So much so that if you live near one it can be almost impossible to […]
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World’s cities are the ‘battleground’ in fight against climate change
Or, the other option.The world’s cities are going to have to move aggressively to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions, or the whole planet is going to pay for it. That’s the […]
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Only bulldozers and bison can save Detroit now
Aren’t these preferable to a statue of robocop?Photo: Cathleen ShattuckThe latest U.S. census reveals that not even Detroit natives are that into the Motor City anymore. The once-flourishing city saw […]
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Actor/activist Mark Ruffalo will follow you on Twitter if you donate to Japan relief
Last seen agitating for a ban on fracking, actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo is now using Twitter as a platform to raise money for relief efforts in Japan. Dude […]
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The world’s top 10 walking cities [SLIDESHOW]
Photo: Miss KA great city is a great walking city. So which is the greatest of them all? Travel book publisher Lonely Planet just surveyed its readers and asked them […]
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Liberal NIMBYism: the most despicable form of hypocrisy?
Prospect Park’s new bike lane is worse than airborne weaponized AIDSPhoto: shannonvsimmsIn staunchly liberal enclaves all over the country, citizens who profess to progressive environmentalism in the abstract are thwarting […]
