National Links: Hot Spots for Urban Tree Canopy
Kudos to Colorado’s climate-focused governor, bad news for walkable cities, smart transit scheduling in Boston and NYC’s inspirational High Line Park.
Category: Links
National Links: Always Warehousing in Philadelphia
Online shopping spurs more warehouse construction around Philadelphia, debating the merits of groundscrapers and AI compiles more accurate traffic models for planning.
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.
National Links: Cardboard Boxes and a Biking Jane Jacobs
Examining our connection to cardboard boxes; evening visits downtown are higher than before the pandemic in many cities; and more national and international news.
National Links: The Great Third Place
How skate parks and bollards can make us safer and more connected, even though they’re “second-best” fixes that sidestep bigger issues.
National Links: Is Bigger Really Better?
An ancient system that cools cities by a few degrees, London’s best use of former industrial lands, and Denver’s pro-transit deal with oil and gas companies.
National Links: Nashville Has a Transit Plan
An ancient example of housing density, why aging seniors are now “stuck in place” and high-speed rail for the 2028 Summer Olympics in LA.
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.
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.