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The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One
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Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection
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What’s up with Austin?
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London’s Lost Ringways
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Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses
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Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world
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“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
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Kids need freedom, too
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20-Minute Neighborhoods
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Noise pollution hurts the heart
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The Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger
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OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
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Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?
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Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
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Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how
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Slow Ways – a network of walking routes connecting Great Britain
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Slow map: Mapping Britain's intercity footpaths
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Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments
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Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
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Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
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Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'
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L.A.'s Lost Transit
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Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route
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Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
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Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm
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Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
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A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design
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It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
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The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic
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One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
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Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
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London bans cars for a day in the fight against air pollution
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Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape
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Poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle
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Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
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Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work
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What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars
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Braess’s paradox
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The Major Urban Revolution of Minor Transportation Means
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Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
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Mass Transit Optimization for Buses: The Depot Problem
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How the Car Keeps Americans Apart
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We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)
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The myth of revealed preference for suburbs
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How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour
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Going faster doesn’t make you happier; you just drive farther
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How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood?
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A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic
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Braess’ paradox
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Open Letter to a Car-Addicted City (2014)
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UK24727: a shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the United Kingdom
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Debunking the Cul-de-Sac
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In Paris, Plans for a Seine Reinvention (2015)
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Closed city
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Why suburbia sucks
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The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)
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Using OpenStreetMap and GraphHopper to visit every pub in Dublin
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Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic
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Paris city centre goes car-free for a day
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The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
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End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile
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Peak car
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Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone
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The slow death of purposeless walking
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Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health
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Secrets of the world's happiest cities
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SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All
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Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
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Systemic traffic jams caused by small groups of drivers, study says
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How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
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The Crisis in American Walking
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What parents worry about vs what they should worry about
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Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto
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Paris to hold referendum on higher parking fees for heavy SUVs
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
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A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic
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Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?
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The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
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Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
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Why are there suddenly so many car washes?
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People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one
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'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public
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Paris Closed 100 Streets to Cars for Good. Now, the City Is a Cyclists' Paradise
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