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  • How to Turn a Car Town into a Cycling City

    October 15, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    The Dutch city of Eindhoven was built around the car, even into the 1970s, but as part of remaking itself after its main industries declined or moved away, it has made a dramatic shift to emphasizing cycling. City officials took steps to improve infrastructure as a way to elevate the city’s image internationally and also meet the needs of locals through high-profile projects that proved so popular the city was emboldened to revamp a major motorway into a public greenspace.

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  • How a Booming City Can Be More Equitable

    October 15, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham, North Carolina works to maintain diversity of communities and perspectives by evaluating the inequities built into their current housing laws and economic opportunities. In redevelopment planning, the city also incorporates artists and activists into planning to ensure the city doesn't lose diversity of culture in its renewal plans.

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  • 'I leave the car at home': how free buses are revolutionising one French city

    October 15, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France, Dunkirk

    Dunkirk, a city of about 200,000 people in France, is experimenting with free bus service for everyone in the city, an initiative that many passengers seem to approve of so far, as shown in higher ridership. While Dunkirk is the largest city to try free public transportation, it's far from the first; however, concerns about financial stability have limited the initiative's reach.

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  • SamTrans prepares to roll out 10 electric buses in fleet-replacement program

    October 15, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    In California, Governor Jerry Brown has implemented a deadline to have "all transit agencies to eliminate carbon emissions" by 2040. San Mateo County is moving towards this goal by releasing a fleet of electric buses.

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  • Beyond Hot Wings: How Architecture Is Helping Buffalo Make Its Comeback

    October 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Buffalo uses its historic architecture to attract international visitors. The city offers tax credits to developers who remodel and renovate old buildings. The effort also helps attract young people back to the city.

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  • The Crime Machine, Part II

    October 12, 2018 |

    Gimlet Media |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    CompStat seemed like a miracle of technology and data when it was rolled out in New York City in the 1990s. Crime dropped as police leadership demanded precincts report every crime and what they were doing about it at weekly meetings where they were pressured to conform to this new system. But this also resulted in police distorting actual crime data to avoid reporting crimes in their districts and the push for increased police activity resulted in cops targeting minorities for minor offenses.

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  • Sexual-Harassment-Reporting Apps Help Stop Abuse in Global City Streets

    October 12, 2018 |

    New York Magazine |

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    Response Location: India

    Using data collection and visualization, apps like SafeCity, HarassMap, and #WalkFreely are crowdsourcing locations where individuals have been sexually harassed or assaulted so that others know to take precautions. Some operate on a global scale, others locally, but what they all offer is a platform for people to share their story and hopefully prevent it from happening again. Such apps have led to action from community members, the media, and officials who have taken notice of the high rates in certain places and taken action.

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  • As Milwaukee embraces bikes and pedestrians with 'Complete Streets,' commercial development gets boost

    October 12, 2018 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Milwaukee is poised to pass a complete streets policy that would advance current efforts to make the city more bike- and pedestrian-friendly. But even without this policy in place, projects to widen sidewalk and improve bike infrastructure are paying off with more business openings and plans by developers who chose the city because of those efforts. The city council is supporting complete streets but it will need cooperation from state highway officials for some of those thoroughfares.

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  • The Crime Machine, Part I

    October 11, 2018 |

    Gimlet Media |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The creation of CompStat fostered a huge drop in crime rates in New York City by the 1990s. The idea came from an odd and obsessive transit cop was to track every single crime daily in every precinct and use that data to systematically go after everything from murders to low-level crimes once ignored by police. It was a drastic shift in the way NYPD worked and was credited with making the city far safer, but was also flawed.

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  • Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.

    October 10, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States

    American cities can find solutions to low transit use by looking to other cities in Europe and Canada where the focus is on robust service and getting people to major transit hubs. These transportation systems use existing infrastructure and space with strategy so that transit is efficient and affordable. This in turn means more people are likely to use it because service is better.

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