Study: Parks in Non-White Areas Are Half As Large
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When we allow car-focused infrastructure to strangle urban parklands, we endanger vulnerable lives in more ways than one.
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A Lot of Golf Courses Should Probably Be Parks
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In the time of Covid, the Presidio Golf Club has become the Presidio People’s Park. Let's keep it that way.
Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan
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Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project.
In Tenth Year of Park(ing) Day, Parklets Bloom on Six Continents
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Cities on six continents are celebrating Park(ing) Day today, now in its tenth year of temporarily transforming curbside space for cars into public spaces for people. Some of the pop-up parks that caught our eye this Park(ing) Day include: Providence pulled out all of the stops this year, with 32 parklets — and a pop-up protected […]
Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away
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Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a […]
A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place
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As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown. The LA Times reported this week that Long Beach officials are studying the possibility of replacing […]