Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

The World’s Greenest, Most Livable Cities

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
Writing in this month’s Reader’s Digest, Matthew Kahn, an environmental economist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, analyzed data from 141 nations and ranked the planet’s greenest, most livable places. While Northern European nations like Finland, Norway and Sweden fared well, the United States performed poorly in several categories, ranking #107 in Greenhouse gases, #106 […]

Making the Case for Compact Development

By Sarah Goodyear | | 9 Comments
From the people at Smart Growth America comes word of a new book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, just out from the Urban Land Institute. In the book, researchers argue that more compact development (such as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta built on reclaimed industrial land, shown at […]

The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
Thinking of getting rid of your car? You could sell it, but that means somebody else is eventually going to drive it on our city’s streets, contributing to air pollution and congestion. The Black Car Collective has a better idea: entomb it in black stucco. The idea is instead of a functional art car we […]

New York: A “Drivers’ Paradise”

By Brad Aaron | | 35 Comments
Move over, biker babes. A presumably tongue-in-cheek article in the Observer heralds the "Californication of New York," thanks to the proliferation of automobiles in "young, lifestyle neighborhoods" like Williamsburg, Astoria and Inwood. According to the piece, a growing number of suburban transplants see auto reliance as a comforting reminder of home. "I didn’t realize how […]

Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2

By Aaron Naparstek | | 6 Comments
Rohit Aggarwala models the latest in Long-Term Planning & Sustainability chic: Gray flannel, subway token cuff links, Columbia U. class ring and a global warming mug: Pour a hot drink and coast lines disappear. This is the second segment of a four-part interview with New York City’s Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Rohit Aggarwala. […]
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