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National Links: Tying TOD to Transport Funding
The financial risk of leaving big cities, locked-in low mortgage rates holding up household movement, and links between car exhaust and Alzheimers.
The financial risk of leaving big cities, locked-in low mortgage rates holding up household movement, and links between car exhaust and Alzheimers.
Money and lives could be saved and health could be improved if only, as a society, we abandoned “car culture.” So why don’t we drive less?
Nearly 300 riders, many of whom have a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, raised $270,000 in October for the first-ever ALZ ride in Minnesota.
The City of Minneapolis is at odds with the East Phillips neighborhood over the Roof Depot site, where community-led efforts can help fight against colonialism and remedy the climate crisis.
During a long and cold winter, the beauty and warmth of a fire can be a great source of comfort. But, there is plenty of evidence that wood fire smoke can be hazardous.
Though it has some resemblance to one, it’s not a playground for adults: it’s an outdoor fitness park.
Along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, more than 300 languages are spoken. As the 7 train runs over the “artery of life”, commerce explodes underneath with vibrancy and community. The street is a microcosm of the world and what goes on there sometimes impacts what happens on the other side of the globe.
How the design of our cities fails to promote our health and how one Texas city may turn to a crypto company to pay off its burdensome debts.
Help communities in Minnesota become more bike friendly through Bikeable Community Workshops. Learn ways to advocate for biking in your community in 2022.
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]