Crypto News: The quiet power of car-free neighborhoods

Backers of car-free neighborhoods often highlight safer roads, cleaner air and better use of public space. But there is an underappreciated benefit: Removing or limiting cars can reduce the drone of motors, tires and horns that accounts for half the noise in urban areas.

Such noise has been linked to adverse health effects. Its absence can also boost businesses and attract people to the neighborhood, contributor David Zipper writes in a new perspective following a visit to the pedestrian-packed streets of Leipzig's historic core in Germany. Today on CityLab: The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

— Curtis Heinzl

A Radical Fix for Britain's Housing Crisis: A New Offshore City
The new government's promise to build 1.5 million homes in the next five years will only start to ease the situation. How about developing a new London next to the one already there?

Oakland Reaches Deal to Sell Coliseum Stake, Avoid Budget Cuts
The city will make $105 million on the transaction, allowing it to stave off cuts to services and continue plans for capital improvement projects.

Singapore's Homegrown Farming Dream Is Beginning to Fade
Singapore's local food campaign is faltering at the halfway mark as high costs and government red tape are hampering farming startups.

"HDB, being public housing, started as cookie-cutters and you just stay in a basic place. Today it's no longer like that, you want to best customize your flat."

Yong Sy Lyng

Founder of OWMF Architecture

Singapore's Housing and Development Board will pilot a new open-plan layout for public housing units in response to changing demographic and economic trends.

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Riding with a trucker, witnessing India's past and potential (New York Times)
Venice cuts size of tourist parties to 25 to reduce impact on city (Guardian)

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