Newsletter Big Stock Photo ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it.
commons.wikimedia.org Shifting gears: Why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lot Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability.'
Good Newscommons.wikimedia.org An abandoned Berlin airport is being transformed into a climate-neutral, car-free neighborhood The site will have 5,000 new apartments—along with schools and stores that all residents can walk to.
Causescommons.wikimedia.org The Point, a new Utah community, will be a 15-minute city “One of our goals is to create what we’ve termed a one-car community.”
Solutions www.thehindu.com ‘First response to climate change: make cities walkable’ The global response to climate change must involve creating low-carbon cities, and the key to that lies in making cities walkable, according to Uwe S. Brandes, an academician and urban design expert.
