Tag: Cities - Page 12
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New Study Says Young People Want Apartments, Not Houses; iPhones, Not Cars
It is a theme on TreeHugger that living walkable communities and dense cities use less energy per capita, and that the auto-centric suburb is perhaps the worst of all planning models if we want to reduce our energy and particularly our oil consumption.
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Squirrels Blamed For a String of Car Vandalisms
For about a month, the community of North Swindon, England was plagued by a mysterious vandal. Numerous residents filed reports with the local police after discovering the brake cables in their cars had been severed by the unknown
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Is Urban Gardening Getting More Creative? From Vertical Spirals to Lampposts, to Facebook
With empty land at a premium in densely populated urban areas, builders have long reached into the sky to maximize the amount of
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Traffic Can Be Good, Public Transit Can Be Bad: David Owen's Unconventional Urban Wisdom (Video)
Writer David Owen makes the now uncontroversial argument that cities are the greenest places we can live, given their scalability, mobility, and density. He's got a lot more unintuitive wisdom about cities, and how much better they can be: Traffic can
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How New York City Became Walk, Bike and Transit Friendly (Video)
When I was growing up, I always thought of New York City as a sprawling, traffic-clogged mess. Yet from supporting bike to work day through greening Madison Square to getting serious about physically separated bike lanes, the
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Celebrating Safer Cycling in Prague
Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was "only for the brave," as an article for Radio Prague put
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Opossums Enlisted to Eat Rats Now Overrun Brooklyn
It seemed like a plan just sinister enough to work: ship in a bunch of rat-eating opossums to combat Brooklyn's rodent problem. But as opposed to doing their job and dying off as city officials had planned, the opossums proved to be
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Charming Colonial Streets of San Juan to Go Car Free
I've had a soft spot for Puerto Rico since taking a work trip there four or five years ago. I'd heard some negative things about the island,
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Walk Score Adds Transit to its City Rankings
Lloyd raved about Walk Score's online ranking of walkability of cities. The site's ranking of the top ten pedestrian-friendly US cities got Kenny's attention, as did the ten least walkable cities too. But a good thing just
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Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco
One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and
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Creating a Cycling Culture in the World's Cities
A city doesn't truly become bike-friendly until more people ride in it, which they likely won't do until it becomes more bike-friendly. But change has to start somewhere.
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Britain's Allotment Culture: When Residents Demand Land, They Get It (Video)
From this awesome tour of a permaculture allotment, to residents battling to keep their gardens, Britain's 'allotment' culture has featured regularly on TreeHugger. And not without good reason. These small plots of land,
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The Fascinating Life and Times of the Humble Pigeon
If you´re a city dweller, chances are you see them everyday - strolling down the sidewalk with their friends, having lunch at a local cafe, or just hanging out in the park. But for as much as we share with our urban
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Sewers as Sidewalks: Delhi Ups the Urban Reuse Ante
Urban planner and architect Manit Rastogi has an idea that makes the High Line look like child's play: turning the 350 kilometers of storm water drains -- now mostly filled with
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World's Largest Urban Forest Was Planted by Hand
From the top of Rio de Janeiro's towering mountain of Corcovado, at the feet of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, the high rise urban centers neatly tucked along the shoreline are dwarfed by the rugged natural skyline. On these
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Turn a Phone Booth into a Library in Four Easy Steps
Turning a disused pay-phone booth into a community library has been done before. But Los Angeles-based artist Amy Inouye may be the first to break the process
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If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo
A few years ago, Wired Magazine published an interesting map showing carbon footprint per capita that graphically demonstrated the obvious: Where you get sprawl, lots of cars and air conditioning, you get a much bigger footprint for every citizen due
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Big-City Bees Healthier, More Productive
While their country cousins' populations collapse, bees in Paris are thriving as having a rooftop hive becomes de rigueur for hotels and restaurants seeking an in-house source of home-grown
