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What is a 15-minute city?
The "15-minute city” is an approach to urban design that aims to improve quality of life by creating cities where…
Emission-based parking charges to drive cleaner air in Bath
In a move aimed at tackling air pollution and improving air quality, Bath & North East Somerset Council is set…
Reclaiming downtowns from traffic requires developers to offer strategies for cutting car use
The US has a car-centric culture that is inseparable from the way its communities are built. One striking example is…
Living the dream: The future of parking
In the '60s, The Jetsons, a cartoon about a family living in the future, featured a flying car that folded…
Driverless cars: What we’ve learned from experiments in San Francisco and Phoenix
Residents of San Francisco and Phoenix have grown used to witnessing something that, a decade ago, would have seemed magical.…
Why cities are embracing the call for car-free streets
"Ban cars" has become a clarion call of contemporary urbanism, even as protests against low-traffic neighbourhoods rage on in the…
City planners are questioning the point of parking garages
For the past century, the public and private sectors appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the…
Despite problems with congestion charges, urban infrastructure benefits
Even with the best public policies, there are critics. In the UK, road pricing has not been universally embraced, exemplified…
Could Melbourne’s on-street parking be converted to green space?
A report published in the journal npj Urban Sustainability on Monday highlighted the “considerable potential” to convert car parking spaces in Melbourne’s…
City-dwellers prepare for winter driving
Changing weather conditions – heavy rain, wind, ice and snow – pose a variety of dangers and, even in a…