National Links: How Cars Affect the Heat Island
This week’s roundup of urbanist news traces the heat trapped by vehicles, the psychology of density and the politics of planning.
Category: Links
National Links: Trips and Other Commodities
Read about housing supplies, issues with permits and the shifting use of streets in this week’s roundup of urbanist news.
National Links: Ah, Look at All the Lonely People
Housing the homeless lowers their hospital visits; physicians now recommend 7,000 steps a day; and more national and international news.
National Links: Race-Walking Beats Bus Times
Killer passenger trains in Florida, flood zones ignored in Texas, China’s magical city, and more national and international urbanist news.
National Links: Cities Change Animal Genes
Stories about highway overbuilding, zoning troubles in Virginia, anti-urbanism in Utah and the importance of transit in Philadelphia.
National Links: Reversible Architecture
Factories and future architecture, microparticles and managing event congestion — it’s a land of contrasts in this week’s Links.
National Links: We’d Prefer Planes Than People
Santa Monica residents fight against affordable housing, the Supreme Court loosens requirements for environmental impact studiers and defining a “third space.”
National Links: Shared Streets and Shared Homes
Shared streets legalized in Washington State, the Highway Trust Fund goes broke and how a friend group developed its own apartment building.
National Links: Breaking Through Climate Apathy
A roundup of national stories includes a new strategy to communicate the climate crisis, a decline in car ownership and modular housing in Maui.
National Links: Even the Critics Love (de)Congestion Pricing
U.S. Department of Transportation attempts to shut down New York City congestion pricing. How is the Netherlands working to meet its climate goals?