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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund&#8217;s annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master&#8217;s degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York&#8217;s pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

Aaron Donovan

Cars

Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread

AARON NAPARSTEK is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparsteks journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of &#8220;Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage&#8221; (Villard, 2003), a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the endless motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Prior to launching Streetsblog, Naparstek worked as an interactive media producer, pioneering some of the Web&#8217;s first music web sites, online communities, live webcasts and social networking services. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University&#8217;s Graduate School of Design. He has a master&#8217;s degree from Columbia University&#8217;s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Naparstek is a co-founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.

Aaron Naparstek

Climate Change

Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up

Sarah Goodyear

Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda

Lifelong New York City resident, except for a year in Copenhagen during college. Both experiences have taught me a lot about good (and bad) urban design. I grew up in Staten Island and also lived in Astoria Queens for 5 years. Now I live in Manhattan where I founded Upper Green Side (www.uppergreenside.org), a local environmental group on the Upper East &amp; West Sides of Manhattan.

Glenn McAnanama

Air Quality

Bloomberg: “New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge”

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Seoul’s New Heart

Alec Appelbaum writes about New York&#8217;s outdoor life for the Architect&#8217;s Newspaper, Metropolis, New York and others. He operates NewYorkerbyNature.com and runs over the East River bridges several times a week. If he gets his act together this summer, he&#8217;ll buy a bike.

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Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread

Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up

Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda

Bloomberg: “New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge”

Seoul’s New Heart

Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief

Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years

London Calling. Are New York’s Leaders Really Listening?

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

Ride a Bike & Get the World’s Best Cookie Half-Price