Right-sizing delivery vehicles
Cargo bikes can replace far heavier vehicles for a substantial share of urban deliveries. But should you buy a cargo bike for personal use? Probably not. ALSO PUBLISHED ON RESILIENCE.ORG In North...
View ArticleOsprey and Otter have a message for Ford
On most summer afternoons, if you gaze across Bowmanville Marsh long enough you’ll see an Osprey flying slow above the water, then suddenly dropping to the surface before rising up with a fish in its...
View ArticleLost in traffic: does your time count?
Also published on Resilience Traffic congestion studies make for quick and easy news articles, but they don’t even begin to calculate the true time lost to car culture. The news story practically wrote...
View ArticleHow parking ate North American cities
Also published on Resilience Forty-odd years ago when I moved from a small village to a big city, I got a lesson in urbanism from a cat who loved to roam. Navigating the streets late at night, he moved...
View ArticleRecipes for car dependency
Also published on Resilience A car-dependent society isn’t built overnight. It takes concerted effort by multiple levels of government and industry to make private cars the go-to, all-but-obligatory...
View ArticleBuilding car-dependent neighborhoods
Also published on Resilience Car-dependent neighbourhoods arise in a multi-level framework of planning, subsidies, advertising campaigns and cultural choices. After that, car dependency requires little...
View ArticleReckoning with ‘the battering ram of the Anthropocene’
Also posted on Resilience Is the word right on the tip of your tongue? You know, the word that sums up the ecological effects of more, faster and bigger vehicles, driving along more and wider lanes of...
View ArticleCan car-dependent suburbs become walkable communities?
Also published on Resilience “The majority of urban areas in most cities today are car-dependent,” writes urban planner Tristan Cleveland, “leaving little room for walkable growth unless cities can...
View ArticleTurning a new leaf in suburbia
Social critic James Howard Kunstler referred to suburban sprawl as “the greatest misallocation of resources in history.”1 In his view, “The suburbs have three destinies – as slums, salvage yards, and...
View ArticleFinding safe paths through suburbia
Also published on Resilience The post-WWII suburban settlement pattern assumes and reinforces car travel as the default transport choice for its residents. Do such settlements have a future when the...
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