National Links: Reversible Architecture
Factories and future architecture, microparticles and managing event congestion — it’s a land of contrasts in this week’s Links.
Author: Jeff Wood
National Links: We’d Prefer Planes Than People
Santa Monica residents fight against affordable housing, the Supreme Court loosens requirements for environmental impact studiers and defining a “third space.”
National Links: Shared Streets and Shared Homes
Shared streets legalized in Washington State, the Highway Trust Fund goes broke and how a friend group developed its own apartment building.
National Links: Breaking Through Climate Apathy
A roundup of national stories includes a new strategy to communicate the climate crisis, a decline in car ownership and modular housing in Maui.
National Links: Even the Critics Love (de)Congestion Pricing
U.S. Department of Transportation attempts to shut down New York City congestion pricing. How is the Netherlands working to meet its climate goals?
National Links: Life on the Margins
Could converted school buses and box trucks help solve the nation’s housing crisis? At some Colorado ski resorts, workers live in their cars.
National Links: No Narrowing Lanes
Changing USDOT policy, the pitfalls of car-centric city life, data-driven housing initiative and the effects of coal-burning pollution.
National Links: A Billionaire Urbanist?
A neighborhood in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, modifies its pandemic-era tradition of socially distanced block parties. Plus, pedestrian-only streets in Paris.
National Links: E-Bike Bliss
This week: Stories about the transformative power of e-bikes, a persistent myth about transportation funding, designed forests, urban beauty and more.
National Links: Homebodies
Americans are staying home more, sometimes in the giant white houses that they’ve been buying; bike lanes are in Trump’s crosshairs and more urbanist news.