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Activists Undermine San Francisco's No Sitting Law with DIY Benches

San Francisco made sitting or lying on the sidewalk illegal, so a group of activists has started installing benches in public under cover of night.

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Video: Driver Plows Through Critical Mass Bike Ride in Brazil [Updated]

Watch the video of a vehicular homicide attempt, get outraged, and then commit to doing something to make your streets safer.

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Chart: There Is No "War On Cars" in New York City

Local media is calling it a "war on cars." This chart shows that if it is a "war," the cars are winning.

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: More from the Streetfilms Series on Livable Streets

The second installment of Streetfilms' excellent video series on the transportation solutions of the future, just released this week, covers cycling.

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What Do the World's Most Romantic Cities Have in Common?

We love—and fall in love in—cities that engender the main elements of smart, sustainable urbanism.

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Image of the Day: Bull Market on Wall Street

This colorful crocheted sweater adorning a Wall Street bull statue was installed by the street artist Olek last week in New York City.

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Car-Free New York City Streets, a Beautifully Illustrated Dream

For a recent New York Times opinion piece, Bruce McCall imagines what the Big Apple might look like if all roads were car-free. It's not pretty.

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Fake Realtors Imagine Artistic Uses for Neglected Buildings

New work from Hypothetical Developments continues to advertise imaginary buildings and call attention to what New Orleans lacks.

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Image of the Day: Make This Better in Ripper's Valley

Broken City Lab set up these brighlty colored cardboard letters to call attention to Windsor, Ontario's "dead-zone" known to as "Ripper's Valley."

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Help CicLAvia Kickstart Its Way Back to LA in 2011

CicLAvia has partnered with Kickstarter to fund its 2011 car-free event. Donate by January 31 to make it happen.

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Video: This Is What a Bicycle Parking Garage Looks Like

At the Groningen rail station in the Netherlands there are enough parking spaces for 10,000 bikes even though the population is only 188,000.

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Steal this Idea: Pop-up Cafes in Parking Spaces

New York's parking space sized pop-up cafes program will expand next year. Could your city be next?

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Image of the Day: Austrian Street Becomes a Race Track

Ochoresotto captures images of Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller's installation that places brilliant red turf paint on an Austrian street.

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Bomb the Blight Brings a Serious Arsenal to Seed-Bombing

The artist Tommy Wilson wants to seed-bomb every state in the nation.

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Intermission: Culture Traffic Jamming

In this video, the artists Rune Madsen messes with the flow of traffic on a city sidewalk and reveals something essential about human behavior.

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Does Planting More Trees Reduce Crime?

Areas with large trees in public spaces have lower crime rates, so will planting more trees in high crime areas make them safer?