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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

submitted 85 days ago • 38 comments

@scottwiener.bsky.social it’s a great time to see how good regulation can create thriving retail: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne... France’s pharmacies continue to outperform right now while Walgreens and CVS are failing pharmacists, staff, & all of us. It’s time for CA to follow France’s lead!

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

The idea of public transport was invented by philosopher-mathematician Blaise Pascal when he knew he was near death in his 30s. I love that such an accomplished thinker chose to devote some of his last lucid hours to drawing lines on maps. Beautiful piece by Taras Grescoe on Pascal’s legacy.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Plan for the city you want. HT Fred Kent

submitted 188 days ago • 7 comments

Don’t forget Valencia, Spain. Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.” Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately. They’re not the “new normal. It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.

submitted 191 days ago • 19 comments