Tag: walking
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Free-Range Kids & the Law
The Murky Law on Free-Range Kids CityLab, April 17, 2015 On April 12, it happened again: Rafi and Dvora Meitiv, the “free-range kids” of Silver Spring, Maryland, were picked up and detained by police. The siblings, aged 10 and six, were playing unsupervised in their neighborhood when a man walking his dog spotted them and…
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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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Urbanizing Gas Stations
Why Gas-Station Restaurants Are Great for Suburbs A new crop of restaurants in gas stations, like Seoul Food D.C., will help suburbs grow into more authentic urban places. CityLab, Nov. 14, 2014 It’s 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m at Seoul Food D.C., eating a kimchi-bacon rice bowl as I watch cars whoosh down…
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