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

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Craig Lewis is Placemaking Practice Group Manager at Arcadis, where he manages planning, landscape architecture, mobility, and urban design studios across the US and Mexico. For more than 30 years, he has used an inter-disciplinary approach to plan and implement the growth and regeneration of urban places across the globe that are more livable, equitable, and sustainable. As a practitioner and researcher, he has been studying how the physical characteristics of places affect our mental and physical well-being across a wide range of contexts– from global cities to local main streets. Pulling data from a variety of sources, Lewis works with clients around the world to create places of enduring economic and emotional value.

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Craig Lewis

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Pedestrian Infrastructre

There’s Good Science Behind the Human Craving for Livable Streets

This story is the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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Pedestrian safety

Krakow is a Polish Pedestrian Paradise

Kevin Duggan joined Streetsblog in October, 2022, after covering transportation for amNY. Duggan has been covering New York since 2018 after getting his masters in journalism from Dublin City University in Ireland. After some freelancing, he landed a job with Vince DiMiceli’s Brooklyn Paper, where he covered southern Brooklyn neighborhoods and, later, Brownstone Brooklyn.

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No Parking: NYC Finally Puts Trash in Bins (Um, Like Europe Has Been Doing for Decades)

Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

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Talking Headways

Talking Headways Podcast: Running to Work

Kea Wilson is Senior Editor for Streetsblog USA. She has more than a dozen years experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She lives in St. Louis, MO. For tips, submissions, and general questions, reach out ther at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org,</a> on X at <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea,</a> or on Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/keawilson.bsky.social">@keawilson.bsky.social.</a>

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Cities Have One Less Excuse Not To Install Accessible Pedestrian Signals

Peter Norton is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he teaches history of technology, social dimensions of engineering, research, and professional ethics. He is the author of &#8220;Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City&#8221; (MIT Press), and of &#8220;Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving&#8221; (Island Press). He is a member of the University of Virginia’s Center for Transportation Studies.