Newsletter Big Stock Photo ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it.
commons.wikimedia.org Shifting gears: Why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lot Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability.'
Good Newscommons.wikimedia.org An abandoned Berlin airport is being transformed into a climate-neutral, car-free neighborhood The site will have 5,000 new apartments—along with schools and stores that all residents can walk to.
Causescommons.wikimedia.org The Point, a new Utah community, will be a 15-minute city “One of our goals is to create what we’ve termed a one-car community.”
Solutions www.thehindu.com ‘First response to climate change: make cities walkable’ The global response to climate change must involve creating low-carbon cities, and the key to that lies in making cities walkable, according to Uwe S. Brandes, an academician and urban design expert.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
