A Traditional City primer
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Traffic will never be fixed here: The benefits of the diverging diamond, and why it's still not enough to fix traffic
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After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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Copenhagen's once-industrial port has been planned to make everything, from schools and play areas to businesses and recreational spaces, accessible within five minutes
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The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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The Costco of housing is…Costco?
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The traffic model deceit: how US highway agencies manipulate data to justify wasteful expansion
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Chicago built 50+ miles of new bike lanes, increasing cyclists by 119% and dramatically reducing fatal collisions
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The future of land use and incremental development
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Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long – The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies
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Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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Evaluating the significance of San Lorenzo Village, a mid-20th century suburban community
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A radical fix for Britain’s housing crisis: A new offshore city
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California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
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Arlington Virginia missing middle trial heralds legal fight over suburban zoning
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Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots
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Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives.
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The new ‘white fortress’ cities of the American South
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How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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Long untouchable, fire departments are causing death and homelessness in American cities by advocating for bad policies
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All the ways car dependency is wrecking us – car harm: a global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
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Spotting visual signs of gentrification at scale
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Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
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Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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The battle for Central Park
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What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
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Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
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‘We’ve lost the art of city building’: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?
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The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing.
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Berkeley's upzoning would be among America's largest
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More lanes are (still) a bad thing
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
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The case for American single-stair multifamily
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You don't need a license to walk
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US traffic control device standards get long-awaited update
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The Masterplan vision for Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled
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Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
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Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
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The old new way to provide cheap housing
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Barcelona car free super blocks have social benefits - help reduce loneliness
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Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
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Joe Biden administration offers $35 billion in low-interest loans to support US transit-oriented development
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
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