Tag: transit
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Germany’s Car-Sharing Paradise
How Bremen, Germany, Became a Car-Sharing Paradise CityLab, Dec. 11, 2014 Bremen, in Northwestern Germany, could not be described as car-dependent in the North American sense of the term. In this city of 550,000, most daily journeys happen on mass transit (14 percent of all trips), on foot (20 percent), or by bike (25 percent). […]
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Don’t Forget the Burbs
Architect, May 2013 Remember when we were going to save the suburbs? In 2008, Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, and June Williamson released Retrofitting Suburbia, a handbook for turning sprawl into walkable, sustainable, more urban places. The book got national media attention, Dunham-Jones gave a TED talk, and for a while, dead malls were the topic du […]