National Links: Parking Minimums Removed in Austin
This week: Wawa gets worse, the pros and cons of seawalls, and efforts to reimagine Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee.
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National Links: Lessons from the Pandemic
In this week’s National Links: pandemic-era changes to work and commutes, designing with autism in mind and the gradual death of the “starter car.”
National Links: Mini-Trucks from Japan
This week: Japanese mini-trucks find a foothold in the States, the decline of park-and-rides and why we need more family-sized apartments.
National Links: Sitting on the Porch
The Overhead Wire’s weekly compilation of national and global news: transportation and medicine, the power of porches and a drop in interactions within cities.
National Links: Doughnuts and Free Speech
Doughnut art sparks a zoning dispute, the relationship between city blocks and their buildings, the false economy of car-centric development and more in National Links.
National Links: Who Can Afford to Drive?
This week: walking is good for kids’ brains, apartment-phobia and its discontents, and what to say to people who think windows should come at a premium.
National Links: ‘We Buy Houses’ Fails Everyone
This week: billboard bans in France, Chicago’s bus battery troubleshooting and how an Arizona town wound up waterless.
National Links: Flood Zones and Texas-Sized Regulation
The Overhead Wire’s weekly news compilation explores why American railroads oppose electrification and how two Belgian cities sought to reduce car use downtown.
National Links: Biodiverse Cities and Transit Construction Costs
How can cities be generators, not destroyers, of biodiversity? This and much more answered in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Should Cities Use Cool Pavements?
Doubts are raised about cool pavements, engineers need more transportation education and other great reads await in this week’s National Links.