This week: Stories about the transformative power of e-bikes, a persistent myth about transportation funding, designed forests, urban beauty and more.

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.

Manheim, Germany switches to heat pumps. A water recycling plant in El Paso breaks ground. Companies move for streetcars in California. And more urbanist news.

Congestion pricing fight, Canadian high-speed rail, Americans’ declining mobility, the Woodlands a half-century on and a possible social housing tax in Seattle.

Denver tests approaches to getting people on bikes; office-to-co-housing conversions show promise; 20 seems like plenty in Wales and more news from all over.

A research study shows the positive impacts of library use; how Miami may solve its trash problem; and more national and international news.

A century of car culture in Los Angeles; mobile dwelling units on wheels in Washington state; and more national and international news.

Will greater enforcement of traffic violations increase highway safety or promote racist policing? That topic and more in our weekly “National Links.”

A roundup of fixed-guideway transit projects in the U.S., YIMBY ideas from Europe, property tax reform, intergenerational living benefits and more.