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.
Category: Links
National Links: What Drives Fast Food?
Minnesota gets two nods in this week’s National Links, with our progressive work on building deconstruction and our largest city’s ban on new drive-throughs.
National Links: What Happened to Small Cars?
This week in National Links: obstructionist fire departments, the promise and perils of climate engineering and changes to the Census.
National Links: The Great Asynchronisation
What do our increasingly asynchronous lifestyles mean for transportation moving forward? Plus, a Dutch architect’s floating buildings and the climate boomtowns of the Midwest.
National Links: Deadly Driving at Intersections
Why do cities across America look and feel pretty much the same? Plus, learn how inflation affects homeowners differently than renters.
National Links: Even More Distracted Drivers
Mexico City’s lack of water, why retailer incentives aren’t relevant anymore and how high rents (and living with the ‘rents) curtails sex lives.
National Links: Spongy Cities and Unions for Housing
The “spongy” rainwater infrastructure of drought-stricken Los Angeles – plus, combating the housing crisis through smaller homes, and unions take on zoning.
National Links: Can Coffee Shops Make You Happy?
Why do states spend so much federal infrastructure money on highways rather than transit? And more national and international news.
National Links: Proving How Trees Can Improve Health
Designing a neighborhood for people with Alzheimer’s, Democratic Congressmen seek to raise the insurance cap on trucks and rich NIMBYs fight a subway.
National Links: An Introverted Economy
Environmentalists are divided in Minneapolis, a California judge orders Beverly Hills to grow and a big funding bill for transit.