Today’s Headlines
- Principles for including bicycles in a future of self-driving vehicles (Planetizen)
- Redesigning crosswalks to make cities safer (Curbed)
- Walkable neighborhoods make for skinny citizens (Treehugger)
- Our transportation system is wasteful overkill (NY Times)
- Governor Brown to sign equity, cap-and-trade expenditure bills in Fresno today (Business Journal)
- New Urban Agenda final draft released (Citiscope)
- Startling revelation: Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism (Guardian)
- Median incomes for city dwellers are on the rise (Next City)
- But as cities get richer, rural areas are left behind (Vox)
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