This text was written by Steven Heywood as a response to the article Guangzhou and a Glimpse into the Future: Changing China from issue 39 of Carbusters.
Basically, the article doesn’t tell any lies, it just leaves out a lot of truths.
In the editorial (p2), it refers to Beijing’s traffic problems and then says “there are [...]
San Luis Potosi (SLP) is the capital city of the homonymous state located in the central-northern part of Mexico. The city, founded in 1592, was originally composed of seven districts (barrios in Spanish) each with their own churches and gardens. In the past the city was known as the “Gardens City” because of its many green and beautiful areas.
It’s healthy, green and in fashion. Just how walkable is your neighbourhood? Walk Score helps people live a carfree lifestyle by measuring how walkable a place is – not just how pretty the area is for walking. The Walk Score uses data and mapping from Google Maps to provide coverage of the walkability of any address in the world. Although it only gives an approximation of walkability, Walk Score is still a useful tool to motivate people to get out and walk.
US President Barack Obama has an unenviable task: helping reverse the current path of environmental destruction, and this involves transforming the way Americans travel. Obama’s Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, does a good job of talking the talk about bicycling and walking as parts of this transformation [...]
It is urgently necessary nowadays to build and to promote new models of urbanism less car-dependant that can allow one to choose freely his mode of transportation. Therefore there is a need to think about new systems of urban planning, but also to think about possibilities to convert existing places into carfree areas.
I was at the playground talking with some moms.
“I could never ride the bus!” said one. “They’re so dirty and crowded.”
“Taking the bus with a baby?” sniffed another. “That’s just child abuse!”
I hate to think what they would have said about my family, had they known our terrible secret: On the second day of my [...]
In Romania, a driver jumped out from his car and bit a pedestrian. Yes, bit! You may think he was a descendant of some famous lineage of vampires, but no, we wouldn’t make fun of such stereotypes – he bit his victim on the stomach. Besides, it was not to taste the blood of his victim, but only because the pedestrian did not cross the road fast enough.
What seems to be missing in many of the discussions about climate change is the possibility that many of the needed changes to reduce human impact on the climate would, far from involving sacrifice, be the very measures needed to solve many intractable problems and increase quality of life. A shift in focus from technological [...]
Can eco-towns stop the sprawling suburbs? Urban sprawl is a modern phenomenon most prominent in the United States and spreading into parts of Europe, it has many consequences which include the rising carbon emissions from modern consuming habits such private car use.
A biological point of view at the favourite habitat of the Homo Sapiens in the Post-Industrial Age.
Each species has its preferred habitat: tigers favouring plains full of grazing prey, or sloth a rich, broad-leaf forest canopy. We humans are no exception. However, we are – along with the rat – the most versatile animal [...]
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