Tag: Transportation
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There’s Something About the Bike: A Conversation with Bob Giordano
in PodcastsStreets are political spaces. Bob Giordano tells why bikes and other modes of sustainable transportation make them safer and more equitable.
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Faculty Favorites: Books That Go Beyond the Classroom
in ChecklistsSix scholars from campuses across the country recommend new environmental books about the blue humanities, environmental justice, the histories of bikes and blockades, and more.
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Surviving Carmageddon in Manila
in EssaysTo address the traffic crisis in the world’s fourth-largest city, officials seek to modernize urban transportation by phasing out the city’s iconic jeepney, a uniquely Filipino mode of transport repurposed from a bygone colonial era.
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Suburban Commuters, Urban Polluters
in FieldnotesThe migration of African Americans to cities and the rise of a commuter culture in the suburbs were shaped by one transformative technology: the automobile.
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Edgy Stuff: May 2016 Recommendations
in ChecklistsMay 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
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Bike Battles: A Conversation on the Road with James Longhurst
in PodcastsA new book by historian James Longhurst profiles the long and contested history of bicycling and (spoiler alert!) the not-so-open road in the United States.
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Shifting Gears: Rethinking Bicycling in Wisconsin
in EssaysFrom “improved” velocipedes on skis to a Good Roads Movement, the history of bicycling is more surprising and wide-reaching than one might expect.
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Edgy Stuff: January 2015 Recommendations
in ChecklistsJanuary 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
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Seven Ways to Sense the Anthropocene
in ChecklistsSeven projects that help us to better sense—visualize, hear, count—ecological and social transformations in the “Age of Humans.”