Urban sustainability news

The Hague car-free city-centre. The Hague, in the Netherlands, has a huge and wide car-free city-centre. As a result, one may see lots of bicycles, pedestrians, some trams, people getting around and buying in the local commerce. This type of urban policies provide citizens safety, humanity, air quality, much less noise, and quality of life. July 2014. Author: João Pimentel Ferreira

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Waltham Forest building a 15-minute borough, Dec 21 [1]


2020

It looks like the pandemic is helping us to move our business into the streets - and killing the urban car along the way, Oct 15 [2]

Barcelona's car-free 'superblocks' could save hundreds of lives, Sep 10 [3]

Bologna pioneers a model of municipal housing cooperative, May 28 [4] ...Italy news

Bristol reveals plans to pedestrianise historic centre in Covid-19 revamp, May 21 [5]

The fifteen-minute city: imagine being only that far away from any major amenity. Paris is going there, Mar 4 [6]

'The streets are more alive': Ghent readers on a car-free city centre, Jan 20 [7]

The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones, Jan 15 [8]

2019

Barcelona to open southern Europe's biggest low-emissions zone, Dec 31 [9]

Marmalade Lane: the car-free, triple-glazed, 42-house oasis, May 8 [10] ...Cambridgeshire

A Modest Proposal to Eliminate 11,000 Urban Parking Spots, Mar 29 [11] ...Amsterdam

Oslo Is (Almost) Car-Free -- And Likes It That Way, Mar 5 [12] ...Norway

Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town, Jan 9 [13] Urban sustainability UK news

Happy space, Jan [14]

2018

Timpson says a locally-driven approach needed to rejuvenate high streets. Retail industry experts have called for a community-focused approach to tackling the challenges facing high streets and town centres. Dec 20 [15] ...Urban sustainability UK news

The city turning streets into gardens, Nov 22 [16] ...Paris

How renters are becoming co-owners and co-developers, Nov 8 [17] ...US news

Create Streets say: We don't want NIMBYs, but YIMBYs and BIMBYs (Y for "Yes", B for "Beautiful"), Oct 15 [18]

A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris, Oct 10 [19]

Norway builds world's tallest timber tower, and it's both environmentally friendly and fire resistant, Sep 5 [20]

This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22 [21] ...Oxfordshire

Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’, Apr 29 [22]

Why 'urban villages' are on the rise around the world, Feb 1 [23]

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References

  1. ↑ airqualitynews.com
  2. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  3. ↑ The Guardian
  4. ↑ @shareable
  5. ↑ theguardian.com
  6. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  7. ↑ theguardian.com
  8. ↑ theguardian.com
  9. ↑ The Guardian
  10. ↑ The Guardian
  11. ↑ CityLab
  12. ↑ CleanTechnica
  13. ↑ What Works Centre for Wellbeing
  14. ↑ Monocle
  15. ↑ GOV.UK
  16. ↑ BBC News
  17. ↑ Shareable
  18. ↑ The Alternative UK
  19. ↑ CityLab
  20. ↑ straitstimes.com
  21. ↑ The Guardian
  22. ↑ nytimes.com
  23. ↑ Shareable
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