Thursday, January 23, 2025

What happened to hanging out on the street?

Also today: Trump's vow to punish sanctuary cities, and nonstop wildfires are straining the global arsenal to fight them.
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Urban dwellers seem to always be in a rush, and according to new research, they're walking even faster than they used to, and spending less time socializing on sidewalks and in other public spaces. These findings, from a study comparing pedestrian behavior in 1980 and 2010 across prominent locations in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia, have implications on more than just a personal level.

As contributor David Zipper writes in a new perspective, the research suggests people are having fewer of the informal encounters that undergird civil society and strengthen urban economies. Today on CityLab: What Happened to Hanging Out on the Street?

— Linda Poon

More on CityLab

Updated: How Sanctuary Cities Are Preparing for Another Showdown With Trump
Trump and his border czar are vowing to punish jurisdictions that do not cooperate with his administration's deportation plans.

New York Proposes Plan to Stabilize Broken Taxi Insurance Market
The industry is reeling from the insolvency of its largest provider American Transit Insurance Co.

Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them
Los Angeles wildfires are being battled by shared planes and multi-national personnel. Now, with overlapping fire seasons and bigger infernos, those collaborations are being put to the test.

Will Americans' taste for telework last?

"We keep pouring more teleworkers into the bucket, but there's a hole and the bottom, and some of them keep escaping. I think that will always be the case."
Patricia Mokhtarian
Georgia Tech civil and environmental engineering professor
Mokhtarian, a transportation researcher, discusses the long-term effects of remote work on transit ridership and downtowns.

What we're reading

  • Trump won't ban immigration arrests at school. Some families are now weighing school attendance (Associated Press)

  • No neighbors, no market, no town: For people whose homes survived, a painful road ahead (Los Angeles Times)

  • Subaru security flaws exposed its system for tracking millions of cars (Wired)

  • Can the only grocery store in a rural Michigan town stay independent? (New York Times)

  • Norman Foster's empire of image control (New Yorker)


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