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Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World
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A new model could help model disease transmission and urban planning
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Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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The large municipalities in the Netherlands plan to make wide use of a legislative amendment that will allow them to designate neighborhoods where investors won’t be allowed to buy cheap and medium-pr...
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American Green
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How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
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America adopted the green, grassy lawn from wealthy millionaires who bought large tracts of land on the edge of cities, built a mansion and had nothing else to do with the remaining property; so they decided to turn it all into green grass.
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How Many Hours Do Americans Lose to Traffic Congestion?
www.visualcapitalist.com
America’s major cities are some of the most traffic congested in the world. Click to find out which ones made the top 10.
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Car dependency is the issue. American cities demolished almost all its pre-WW2 transit systems.

Los Angeles had the largest streetcar transit network in the world in the 1900s. NYC used to have more than a dozen subway lines, along with over 30+ streetcar transit lines. Detroit demolished its reli... View More
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Los Angeles is the first major city in the world to synchronize all its traffic lights. Nearly 4,400 lights across 469 miles receive real-time updates about traffic flow to make second-by-second adjus... View More
Los Angeles synchronizes all traffic lights | ZDNet
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A new traffic system aims to reduce congestion by having 4,400 traffic lights work together.
 
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Yes, Los Angeles is a walkable city. Here’s how we discovered it.
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Do you laugh out loud when you hear the words “walkable Los Angeles”? I used to, too, since LA has a reputation for being all freeways and suburbs.
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LA was built on the streetcar suburb grid. That is why it is mostly walkable, despite the last streetcar line being demolished in 1962.
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Vehicles Are Still Firmly in Control of City Streets
www.governing.com
Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities and bike riding continues to grow. Yet urban streets are still designed and used like highways. Change is happening, but at a very slow pace, says urba...
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Because there is no other choice but to drive private car.
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Arcology: The City In The Image Of Man 1969
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In what is considered his literary magnum opus, visionary architect Paolo Soleri challenges us to think of cities as biological entities, and introduces us to a philosophy for a new kind of urban livi...
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From a housing crisis to a fire crisis: San Francisco’s exodus led many to a new conundrum
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The pandemic caused an exodus of people from San Francisco. Many of them went to some of...
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15 Pieces Of Hostile Architecture Most People Don't Even Notice - https://www.ranker.com/list/hostile-architecture-examples/rachel-souerbry
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Our biggest mistake was to pour trillions of dollars into relocating poor people into the cites and rich people into the countryside. That was horrible public policy that should've NEVER taken place!!

Not with cities being reclaimed by the wealthy and poor people getting pushed out. The poor are l... View More
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