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Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: mobility, quality of life, environment, public space, …
Sadly, my time as TheCityFix blogger has come to an end.
I gotta say it’s been great. First of all, I got to bike to work every morning, which automatically made every day start out well. …
Hallelujah! It’s Friday. That means it’s time for another dose of Friday Fun, to send you into your weekend right — with sustainable transport on your mind.
This week, we’re looking at public transport in the movies, …
Bangalore, India is notorious for its grinding congestion and painful, polluted commutes. The city’s information technology (IT) boom in the 1990s and early “aughties” led to sprawling, haphazard development and an expanding middle class with …
Have you been keeping up with our latest posts on TheCityFix Mumbai?
Akshay Mani, a transport planner with EMBARQ (the producer of this blog), has written a series of posts about the importance of auto-rickshaws in …
Recently we wrote about Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup and some of the proposed transport infrastructure improvements, including more than 500 kilometers of bus rapid transit (BRT) lines, that will come out of the …
“This project marks a significant break with traditional thinking that regards transport as too hard to deal with when it comes to greenhouse gas reduction.” – Prof. John Whitelegg, co-author of “Towards a Zero Carbon Vision …
Over the past year, we’ve written extensively about the new bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Ahmedabad, India, called Janmarg BRT. The system — India’s first full BRT — was a game-changer in India in …
Some of our perennial readers may remember Walk Score, which we wrote about back in 2007. The website ranks neighborhoods’ walkability on a scale of 0 to 100, based on a complex, patent-pending, ever improving …
Within five to ten years, Oakland, Calif., has the potential to become a model of urban revitalization and sustainable livability.
It may sound a bit paradoxical — but it’s possible.
The name Oakland still too often conjures …
Los segundos pisos atienden la demanda de una ciudad que vive bajo un concepto de individualidad que ya no responde a las necesidades de las megalópolis del Siglo XXI. Es preciso desarrollar un diseño inteligente de sistemas de transporte público que permitan la reducción de emisiones contaminantes. Las soluciones parciales, focalizadas, no sistémicas, envían el falaz mensaje de “resolver el problema de movilidad”, empero…
Mumbai is a hectic metropolis infamous for its traffic chaos. The hundreds of thousands of tiny black and yellow cabs and rickshaws that criss-cross the streets have caused plenty of frustration for the city’s 14 million …
The first organic market to open east of the Anacostia is certainly a milestone but is it accessible?
According to a press release announcing the new supermarket:
“… Yes! Organic Market is committed to making fresh produce …
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