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Paris' ambitious public-private "Vélib" bike initiative encourages residents to forgo cars for bikes and public transportation. In the process, the program has fostered a unique popular culture, complete with its own language, jokes, and pick-up lines. Its success has inspired cities like São Paulo, Venice, and London to begin adopting similar programs Distributed by PBS Distribution.
4) Food Miles
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By the time it's been grown, processed, and distributed, most food in the 21st-century global food economy has traveled an average of 1,500 miles before reaching the plate. As renowned author Michael Pollan elaborates, the effects of this fossil fuel-driven system are detrimental to the environment, to health, and to social well-being. Writer Michael Shuman argues for investing in local food systems.
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Portland has become a global model of transit-oriented development (TOD). For more than 40 years, city planners have integrated transport decisions into urban growth and development efforts. The result: Portland is consistently ranked as one of the country's most livable cities, boasting a healthy two percent population growth annually - and the second-lowest per capita transportation spending of the 28 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
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Based on the economic principle of demand management, London's congestion charge challenges the 20th-century notion that cities should be designed around cars and asks drivers to pay for access to public roads and parking spaces. Thanks to visionary municipal leaders like Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, this plan is the core of a sweeping push to transform London into a transit-efficient and pedestrian-friendly mega-city in time for the 2012 Olympics.
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An analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail--the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it...
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This episode looks at new technologies and policies that could offset the aviation industry's substantial greenhouse gas emissions, such as Amyris Biotechnologies' new synthetic jet fuels and Hybrid Air Vehicles' second generation of dirigible airship. To reduce fuel emissions, industry leaders like Boeing are also advocating towing planes on runways and implementing smarter air traffic control systems.
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In 2003, the city of Seoul took a rare step "back in time," demolishing a major downtown freeway to uncover and restore the ancient Chonggyecheon stream that once flowed beneath it. An impressive feat of engineering, the project repurposed nearly 75 percent of the dismantled highway material for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the stream's banks and commercial corridor.
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"This specialist monograph on SAA is presented in three parts, Urbanistic, Humanistic and Optimistic, and offers a practice overview, showcasing a selection of the firm's large-scale works that have been designed and built over the past 10 years. It also offers an introduction to work in progress and conceptual architectural work. Driven by three tenets of architectural design, SAA is committed to delivering buildings and master plans that interweave...
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"The product of years of research in various city archives, New York Subways supplies a comprehensive account of the rapid transit system's design and engineering history plus an extensive array of photographs, engineering plans, and technical data for nearly every subway car in the New York City system, from the days of steam and cable to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
"The first subway line in New York City opened on October 27, 1904. To celebrate...
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Transportation Racism illustrates the obvious but ignored: chronic transportation inequality remains firmly entrenched a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts. This precedent setting text combines academic research with voices from the grassroots to expose the racism concealed within transportation planning and to establish transportation equity as a critical issue of the continued civil rights struggle.
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