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Streets are among a city’s most valuable public assets. Yet for decades, much of this space has been designed primarily to move and store cars.

As cities confront rising temperatures, flooding, air and noise pollution, congestion and pressure on public space, local leaders are reconsidering how streets and public spaces are used and for whom they are designed.

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I have not been posting much lately. The proximate reason is that I spent most of October finalizing with Borners the text of the London construction costs report; there’s still another round of edits but they’re quite small. I don’t want to preview the argument in the report yet, but I do want to talk about one thing that jumped to me while looking at the cost history of Lon...


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Railroad rights-of-way have had economic value for a variety of non-rail purposes, at least since World War II—fiberoptic cables recently and, before that, power transmission and pipelines, usually on abandoned rights-of-way. A new and compelling use is rapidly developing, tapping into, perhaps, a trillion-dollar market connecting renewable as well as conventional electricity...


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