All posts in USA and Canada

May

San Francisco’s Uber-Complicated Taxi Industry

Categories: Cars and Roads, Transport, USA and Canada

Tags: Cab, cc, San Francisco

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by Scott Beyer

Hailing a cab in San Francisco is difficult and time-consuming. While a visitor, perhaps unaware of how else to navigate the city, might crack this up to market failures, anyone well-versed in local politics knows better. Read more

May

Infographic: Cities Embracing the Green Revolution

Categories: Europe, Planning, UK, Urban Scale, USA and Canada

Tags: Amsterdam, cc, Copenhagen, infographic, London, New York, stockholm, Vancouver

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by Joe Peach

Could a 'green revolution' in cities be the solution to rising CO2 levels? This new infographic provides an interesting view of sustainability in New York, Vancouver, Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm. Read more

May

Greening Cities with Better Bike Lanes

Categories: Bikes, Transport, USA and Canada

Tags: Austin, cc, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco, washington dc

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by Dana Fatol

The Green Lane Project has brought together six U.S. cities to build more protected bike trails. Martha Roskowski, Director of the project, put some time aside to talk to This Big City. Read more

May

Texas and Bangladesh: Tragedies of Placeless Economics

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Energy and Services, Planning, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, Dhaka, West

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by Drew Reed

We are living under a system of placeless economics, where a few digits on an accountant’s spreadsheet negate the common sense of properly building and locating industrial facilities. Read more

May

Urban Ideology in Obama’s Brand of Regionalism

Categories: Governance, People, USA and Canada

Tags: cc

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by Scott Beyer

According to a new book, Obama aims to “abolish the suburbs, ideally by having cities annex suburban municipalities.” Is the author right that Obama's policies are “hostile to traditions of individual freedom”? Read more

May

The DIY Disaster Plan

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Planning, Urban Scale, USA and Canada

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by Next City

As cities around the world grapple with rising sea levels and strengthening storms, governments are responding with an array of infrastructural solutions. But there’s a growing awareness that combating disasters with hard infrastructure alone ignores half the equation. Read more

Apr

Detroit Calling at the Placemaking Leadership Council

Categories: Placemaking, Planning, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, Detroit

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by Cara Courage

The inaugural Placemaking Leadership Council met in Detroit in April. Attended by 300 people from 10 countries, the conference aimed to be the first step in the galvanisation of placemaking as a global movement and a knowledge exchange between placemakers and their diverse practices. Read more

Apr

The Road that Goes, Mercifully Enough, to “Nowhere”

Categories: Cars and Roads, Transport, USA and Canada

Tags: Baltimore, cc

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by Scott Beyer

Tales about America’s “freeway revolts” are usually told through notable cities such as San Francisco and Portland. But one project less talked about—although equally devastating—would have been the East-West Expressway proposed in the 1960s for Baltimore. Read more