In line with Vision Zero, the recent city initiative to reduce traffic-related injuries and deaths, on June 23 Mr. de Blasio signed 11 new traffic bills into law which are designed to tighten traffic enforcement and traffic data collection efforts.
Can this app give you more control over your life?
Cheap oil built the modern American landscape. Now what? Eric Sanderson has some ideas.
Composting bins for all residences and businesses in New York City may not be far off.
We offer a new survey, created by a team at Columbia University, to City Atlas readers to help guide policy-making in New York City. Please take it — it may be important in shaping how the city prepares for future events like Sandy.
As reported in DNAinfo, Deputy Commissioner for Recycling and Sustainability Ron Gonen recently called for legislation to ban all food service Styrofoam containers and packaging in…
CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy) is seeking collaborators for the next four issues of Making Policy Public, their publication series that uses graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues.
To have a more sustainable, livable city, we must make the streets safe and accessible for pedestrians and bikers – cars should not be allowed to rule the streets.
Following in London and Stockholm’s footsteps, Milan has recently introduced a new congestion charge in an effort to reduce traffic – and the initial results…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/one-path-to-better-jobs-more-density-in-cities.html "…When it comes to economic growth and the creation of jobs, the denser the city the better."