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When It Comes to Walkability, Mexico City Is Miles Ahead

August 29, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Pedestrian Street in Mexico City

 This piece was coauthored by Nolan Gray and Katarina Hall.It’s like Los Angeles, but worse. To many, that’s the mental image of Mexico City: a city of unending traffic, unbearable smog, and unrestrained horizontal expansion. Yet when one walks the streets of Mexico City, a distinct … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, Transportation Tagged With: bicycles, bus rapid transit, latin america, Mexico, Mexico City, parks, transit, Transportation, walkability

Old Urbanist on the failure of Boston’s newest park

April 12, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Old Urbanist is one of my favorite urbanist blogs (and not just because of the name), and Charlie's got a post up about Boston that I think has a good market urbanist lesson in it. He describes how the formerly elevated Central Artery, buried by the Big Dig, was replaced with a park, with nobody … [Read more...]

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