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Kids getting ready to bike home at this primary school in Utrecht, Netherlands. Ninety-five percent of the older kids bike to school at least some of the time. Credit:...
With the growing popularity of cycling in the Netherlands, finding a parking place for your bike is becoming more difficult, as seen here in the Hague. Credit: Jay...
San Francisco board of supervisors president David Chiu looks out on Java Island, a new neighborhood in Amsterdam where bikes and pedestrians (and boats) take priority...
Photo Credit: Megapolis2024/FlickrIt feels a bit strange to be sitting in the middle of one of the world’s wealthiest neighborhoods, and to be so thoroughly engrossed in...
Freiburg, Germany Photo Credit: Gregorius Mundus/FlickrMy infatuation with cities began on a college-vacation visit to Montreal, where I was enchanted by...
Photo credit: Ashton Hayes Going Carbon NeutralGlobal climate change hits us as an overwhelming, yet distantly abstract problem. It’s worth losing sleep over, but with...
Totnes, England. Photo credit: street spirit909/FlickrThe coming threat of both global warming and diminishing oil supplies has spurred more than 150 communities to...
Photo credit: Ladik/FlickrIt’s still early on a cold March morning that threatens rain, yet Rome’s Piazza Navona teems with life. Young men deliver boxfuls of wine,...
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