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Steal this Idea: Pop-up Cafes in Parking Spaces
New York's parking space sized pop-up cafes program will expand next year. Could your city be next?
Cities
Video: Driver Plows Through Critical Mass Bike Ride in Brazil [Updated]
Watch the video of a vehicular homicide attempt, get outraged, and then commit to doing something to make your streets safer.
Cities
Goodbye, Sidewalks: London Planners Break Down Boundaries Between Cars and Pedestrians
Londoners learn how to share the street without barriers to keep vehicles and pedestrians apart.
Design
Car-Shaped Bike Rack Turns One Parking Space into 15
Ilian Milinov makes a clever statement on the preferential treatment of cars over bikes on city streets.
Cities
Activists Undermine San Francisco's No Sitting Law with DIY Benches
San Francisco made sitting or lying on the sidewalk illegal, so a group of activists has started installing benches in public under cover of night.
Cities
Photos from Around the World on Park(ing) Day 2010
Park(ing) Day, the celebration that sees people turn parking spaces into temporary parks, went off in cities around the world. Here are the photos.
Cities
Car-Free New York City Streets, a Beautifully Illustrated Dream
For a recent New York Times opinion piece, Bruce McCall imagines what the Big Apple might look like if all roads were car-free. It's not pretty.
Environment
Hangzhou's Massive Bike-Share System Dwarfs All Others
China has, in a few short years, built a 50,000-bike system for a city of nearly 7 million people.
Environment
What Do The World's Most Romantic Cities Have in Common?
We love—and fall in love in—cities that engender the main elements of smart, sustainable urbanism.
News
The Man Who Wanted to Ban Cars from Manhattan (in 1961)
A new documentary focuses on a largely-forgotten writer and urbanist whose ideas were ahead of his time. (Plus a contest.)
Design
Redesigned Crosswalks Could Save Walkers' Lives
Here's a brilliantly simple idea from the Korean designer Jae Min Lim, via Fast Company's Co.Design: redesigning crosswalks to reflect how...
News
Watch a Short Film About Cargo Bikes, the Danish Station Wagon
A short Street Films documentary about Danes who use cargo bikes to haul groceries, spouses, and children around town.
Culture
Bomb the Blight Brings a Serious Arsenal to Seed-Bombing
The artist Tommy Wilson wants to seed-bomb every state in the nation.
Environment
Hey L.A., on 10/10/10 Come Out and Play at CicLAvia
Celebrate a car-free Los Angeles on 10/10/10 at CicLAvia.
Culture
Intermission: Culture Traffic Jamming
In this video, the artists Rune Madsen messes with the flow of traffic on a city sidewalk and reveals something essential about human behavior.
Cities
Video: This Is What a Bicycle Parking Garage Looks Like
At the Groningen rail station in the Netherlands there are enough parking spaces for 10,000 bikes even though the population is only 188,000.
Design
Fake Realtors Imagine Artistic Uses for Neglected Buildings
New work from Hypothetical Developments continues to advertise imaginary buildings and call attention to what New Orleans lacks.
Environment
Bike Sharing Thrives, Even in Mexico City's Chaotic Streets
Five years ago, it would have taken a brave soul to ride a bike in downtown Mexico City. Not anymore, thanks to a wildly popular bike share system.
