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.
Category: Links
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.
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: New Ideas on Public Housing
How did Toronto speed up one of their slowest streetcar lines by 50%? This and more answered in this week’s (inter)national urbanist news links.