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Death and Life of the American Streetcar

March 22, 2012 by Patrick Lydon
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Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Valley) Streetcar and Interurban Rail Lines, Circa 1920 (Illustration, P. Lydon | sociecity)In the early 1900′s, most U.S. cities with populations over 20,000 or so had privately owned and operated above-ground electric rail systems.The area now known as Silicon Valley was once home to a... [read more]

Network Structure and City Size

January 13, 2012 by David Levinson
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 Recently published: Levinson, David (2011) Network Structure and City Size. PLoS One PLoS ONE 7(1): e29721, January 12, 2012 [doi]  Network structure varies across cities. This variation may yield important knowledge about how the internal structure of the city affects its performance. This paper systematically... [read more]

Over 33 Public Transit Projects Slated for 2012

January 4, 2012 by Peter Rudd
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Here is a map showing the over 30 new municipal transit projects happening this year in the US and Canada.  These projects will make our cities more sustainable.  In the short term they will have an immediate and profound effect in reducing per capita energy consumption and pollution.  They will also have an immediate... [read more]

Mobile Garden on the Loop

December 28, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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Earlier this fall, Noisivelet, a public arts organization whose name is ”television” spelled backwards, brought Mobile Garden to a train car riding Chicago’s downtown Loop, where it was exhibited along with projects by 50 other artists. Part of the Art on Track festival, the exhibition offered... [read more]

5 of the Best Transport Blog Posts of 2011

December 27, 2011 by This Big City
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The way we get around our cities is a critical factor in their sustainability. Here are 5 of the best blog posts we’ve featured on This Big City in 2011 exploring that very topic: Is the Supervia Highway a Wrong Turn for Mexico City? ‘While urban highways are being destroyed around the world, Mexico City is preparing to build another one... [read more]

Infographic: Why the World Needs to Start Car-sharing

December 22, 2011 by This Big City
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78% of all car journeys are taken with a single person in the car, something which is a massively inefficient use of space, energy and money. Car-sharing schemes aim to address this, potentially reducing congestion, emissions, and costs of transportation by getting more people into one vehicle. If the complexity and potential risk of... [read more]

India’s Urban Future

December 21, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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India is one of the few remaining large countries of the world yet to experience the urbanisation of its population. In most regions – from the US, to Europe and Latin America – more than 75% of people live in urban areas. By contrast, only 31% of India’s people live in cities. This, however, is set to change dramatically in the coming decades. By one estimate an additional 250 million people – equivalent to 80% of current population of the United States – will call India’s cities home by 2030. The number of cities with more than 1 million people will increase from 42 today to 68. [read more]

A Growing City in Malawi and its Pay-to-Cross Footbridges

December 14, 2011 by This Big City
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As the world’s population reaches 7 billion, one sign that Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, is growing rapidly are the numbers of people that flock to the city’s markets. Two such markets are on opposite sides of the Lilongwe River in this city of just over 1 million. One market sells vegetables and farm produce, the other clothing. [read more]

New Bridge Design Serves Pedestrians and Cyclists Better

December 10, 2011 by Steve Offutt
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Arlington County has chosen a design for its upcoming rehabilitation of the Carlin Springs bridge over George Mason Drive.The current bridge has five-foot sidewalks and no accommodation for cyclists.  The new bridge will have 8-foot sidewalks and 5-foot bike lanes on both sides.  The rest of Carlin Springs Drive does not... [read more]

The Commanding Heights

December 6, 2011 by David Levinson
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Reihan Salam at NRO questions the Kotkin hypothesis, asking: "Are people choosing low-density metropolitan areas — or did rising prices in high-density metropolitan areas [like Marin County, in the Bay Area pictured -ed.] drive the population shift?" What is cause, and what is effect, is not immediately obvious. There are trade-offs.... [read more]

Bike Sharing Boom in Cities

November 30, 2011 by Bob Leonard
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Bike sharing sure has come a long way since the failed Yellow Bike Project of 1994 in Portland, Oregon. With the launch of New York City’s first system next spring coinciding with similar plans in other cities, it appears that bikes and bike stations may become as widespread and popular as they are in Canada and throughout Europe. [read more]

Death of Sprawl: Past and Future

November 30, 2011 by Warren Karlenzig
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Seems like my chapter "The Death of Sprawl" from The Post Carbon Reader is taking on a life of its own. Friday, Christopher Leinberger had an Op-ed in the New York Times, titled "Death of the Fringe Suburb," which built upon concepts I had published (and sent Leinberger last year) namely, that the US mortgage crisis and Recession were set off by upsidedown economics of sprawl speculation in US exurbs or "Boomburbs" and we can't ever do that again. [read more]