Accidents and pollution are making road vehicles untenable. With public transport and ride-sharing, their demise can’t come soon enough In 1989 a group of Chinese
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They are our last truly public spaces, but the scale of their neglect by this government is becoming clear In a summer when even Conservative
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Spectacle of leafy ash, oak and elm ambling through Leeuwarden’s streets offers vision of a greener future It is less of a marathon and more
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Innovative ways are being found to cool cities, and justice demands that rich countries help those in the global south, say Dr David Dodman and
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Streets have been optimised for one thing: traffic. A kind of ‘urban rewilding’ could return them to the complex social ecosystems they once were There
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I took up a challenge from a climate charity – and suddenly my daughter and I were gliding past canals instead of sitting in traffic
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