City Life

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All topics urbanism and city related, from urban planning to public transit to municipal interest stuff. Both automobile and FuckCars inclusive.

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West Philly Porchfest: The Battle for Car-Free Streets and Community Celebration (www.resilience.org)
submitted 1 month ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Where Would the Bay Area Be Without BART? (sf.streetsblog.org)
submitted 1 month ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Federal dollars speed up work on safe streets, but money isn’t the only roadblock (www.npr.org)
submitted 1 month ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis (archive.ph)
submitted 1 month ago by pbjamm@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities (reasonstobecheerful.world)
submitted 2 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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How Detroit Lost 65% Of Its Population (libranet.de)
submitted 3 months ago by petrescatraian@libranet.de to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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youtube.com/watch?v=tQdGFufkrN…

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Undercover Performers Take Over Manhattan Sidewalks: The Mp3 Experiment 18 (yewtu.be)
submitted 3 months ago by Hirom@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Mp3 Experiments feature thousands of people followed secret, synchronized instructions delivered via headphones. This 18th installment features some comments on urban planning.

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Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Like Bike Lanes. Floridians Seem To Agree. (www.strongtowns.org)
submitted 3 months ago by moral_imperative@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars (www.vox.com)
submitted 3 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs and trucks, pushing automakers and American buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting car bloat through regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies, but a disaster for everyone else.

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Colorado is offering $450 e-bike subsidies. Other states should follow suit (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 4 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? (www.vox.com)
submitted 4 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Iowans were fooled by a prank to make a busy area of Des Moines... walkable (ody.sh)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Can Cities Drive SUVs Off Their Streets? (reasonstobecheerful.world)
submitted 5 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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How Many People Does Car Culture Kill, Exactly? (usa.streetsblog.org)
submitted 5 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Pedestrian safety and crosswalks: Recent research (journalistsresource.org)
submitted 5 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes (www.volts.wtf)
submitted 5 months ago by nix@midwest.social to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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"The Motorist Won" - Art project emphasizing the absurdity of car-centric design (www.scalefulness.com)
submitted 5 months ago by nix@midwest.social to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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"Suita Titan" ("The Titan Suite") - documentary film about life as a young person during the Communist regime in the iconic Titan neighborhood, Bucharest, Romania (libranet.de)
submitted 5 months ago by petrescatraian@libranet.de to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes (electrek.co)
submitted 5 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild: Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 6 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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Hoboken Celebrates 7 Years Without A Traffic Death (patch.com)
submitted 6 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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From Montreal to Berlin, Cities Aim to Stay Open 24 Hours (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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State funding could be withheld from Colorado cities that don’t tie housing to transit under new affordability push (coloradosun.com)
submitted 6 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org
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