US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They are gray and rectangular, and if you laid all 2 billion of them…
Sorry, GDP. There Are Other Ways to Measure a Nation’s Worth
[ad_1] On June 3, 2022, as United Nations members gathered to celebrate the 50th World Environment Day, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was time to eschew using gross domestic product…
Cities Need to Realize the Value of Emotional Design
[ad_1] When was the last time you walked down a street with new buildings and felt anything positive? Or anything at all? Modern buildings have become boring—flat, plain, shiny, rectangular,…
The Pandemic Bike Boom Survives—in Cities That Stepped Up
[ad_1] In 18 years working in bicycles, Eric Bjorling had never seen anything like April 2020. With no end to the pandemic in sight, people were desperate for things to…