Performative Piety (revised)
In response to a recent Streets.mn article, our author asks whether “virtue signaling” in liberal circles has us prioritizing feel-good solutions over truly effective ones.
Category: Climate
National Links: Urban Renewal Ruined Everything
The notorious legacy of Urban Renewal hinders new projects. Seattle gets a dutch intersection, and Mexico City’s water threatens to run dry.
Confessions of a Virtue Signaler
What a casual insult tells us about the limits and potential of individual choices and collective relationships to make big changes.
Keeping Building Materials Out of Landfills Is Heroic Work
We generate twice as much construction demolition debris as we do household trash. Melissa Wenzel is working to change that in Minnesota.
National Links: Universal Basic Mobility
California dips a toe into Universal Basic Mobility, cities look to decrease emissions from delivery vehicles and the national housing crisis defined.
National Links: Climate Impacts and Canadian Cities
This week in National Links: tales of two Canadian cities, big and small emissions cuts and the new life of manufactured homes.
‘1,000 Trees for Frogtown’ Warms Hearts and Cools the Climate
Frogtown Green’s team of volunteers is working hard to restore the urban tree canopy and foster connections in St. Paul’s Frogtown and Summit-University neighborhoods.
National Links: Parking Minimums Removed in Austin
This week: Wawa gets worse, the pros and cons of seawalls, and efforts to reimagine Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee.
National Links: Norwegian EV Regrets
Catch up on the latest land use, climate and transportation news from Canada to Colorado to Norway and back again.
National Links: Lessons from the Pandemic
In this week’s National Links: pandemic-era changes to work and commutes, designing with autism in mind and the gradual death of the “starter car.”