There’s a famous—to urbanists—story about Amsterdam in the 1970s. Today, Amsterdam is the poster child, almost the byword, for a quiet, clean European city that makes lots of room for pedestrians and bike riders. When people talk about “Europe” in terms of land use, they often mean, or you imagine, Amsterdam.

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‘A metred parking spot is an inexpensive short-term lease for a plot of precious urban real estate’ Rebar, the San Francisco–based group who promote the idea, reflected.16 They took the idea to social media and it took off in hundreds of cities around the world, ‘a global experiment in remixing, reclaiming and reprogramming vehicular space for soci

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If more and bigger highways mean more traffic, does the same logic work in reverse? The latest twist in the induced demand story might be called reduced demand, which seems to be what happens when “vital” arteries are removed from cities. The traffic just goes away. The two best-known American examples remain New York’s West Side Highway and San Fr

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