National Links: Trips and Other Commodities
Read about housing supplies, issues with permits and the shifting use of streets in this week’s roundup of urbanist news.
Author: Jeff Wood
National Links: Ah, Look at All the Lonely People
Housing the homeless lowers their hospital visits; physicians now recommend 7,000 steps a day; and more national and international news.
National Links: Race-Walking Beats Bus Times
Killer passenger trains in Florida, flood zones ignored in Texas, China’s magical city, and more national and international urbanist news.
National Links: Cities Change Animal Genes
Stories about highway overbuilding, zoning troubles in Virginia, anti-urbanism in Utah and the importance of transit in Philadelphia.
National Links: Reversible Architecture
Factories and future architecture, microparticles and managing event congestion — it’s a land of contrasts in this week’s Links.
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.