Topic: Cars
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Slowing Down Cars Saves Lives. So Why Is Toronto's Mayor So Opposed?
Lowering speed limits can greatly cut down on pedestrian injuries. But Rob Ford thinks one such proposal is "nuts."
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How to Make Transit (and Biking and Walking) Sexy
Urban designer and writer Darrin Nordahl thinks it's time for advocates of alternative transportation to stop trying to appeal to reason and go for the gut instead.
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Is Traffic Making Us Lonely?
Long before the invention of social media, a man named Donald Appleyard was investigating how automotive traffic isolates us from one another.
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Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours
By seizing a historical moment, ordinary Danish and Dutch citizens were able to change the course of development in their urban centers.
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Urban Wonk
The Invention of Jaywalking
The forgotten history of how the auto industry won the right of way for cars.
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How to Green Southern Cities Built in the Age of Cars and Air Conditioning
U.S. cities in the South have their own set of challenges to face in going green. But Atlanta, for one, is trying.
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Urban Wonk
Why Young Americans Are Driving So Much Less Than Their Parents
Millennials are increasingly uninterested in the burden of car ownership.
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Bad Review of the Day: New Haven's Reviled Urban Highway Replacement
The city won a grant to replace its highway with a walkable downtown, but one group raises several concerns about the new plan.
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Photos
The Glorious Return of the World's Smallest Street-Legal Car
How would you like to own a car so compact that you could pick it up and carry it into your apartment at night?
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Videos
Take a Video Tour of Istanbul's Conceptual New Taksim Square
Zoom through underground roadways and over a reconstructed Ottoman barrack in this video of the yet-to-be-built Taksim Project, a major rejiggering of Istanbul's central park.
