News: Triangle Rail, Inactivity & Cancer, Luring Families to Cities, Sprawl's Spread
November 7, 2011
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom.
Triangle: Working on the Railroads Raleigh Public Record
Though Raleigh has been talking rail for more than two decades, it seems as though plans to make the Capitol City a rail-friendly place are now chugging along. Raleigh is involved in three different rail projects-high speed rail, light rail and building a new downtown train station..
Triangle: Working on the Railroads Raleigh Public Record
Though Raleigh has been talking rail for more than two decades, it seems as though plans to make the Capitol City a rail-friendly place are now chugging along. Raleigh is involved in three different rail projects-high speed rail, light rail and building a new downtown train station..
Research: Urban Form, Social Enviro, Depression
November 2, 2011|Journal of Urban Health
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We examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms... Read On
Blogosphere: City Smog Linked to Cognitive Defects
November 2, 2011|The Atlantic Cities
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For all the benefits of growing up urban, there are some considerable health risks too. In an upcoming issue of the journal Brain and Cognition, an international team of researchers reports that exposure to urban air pollutants "may perturb the trajectory of cerebral development and result in cognitive deficits during childhood."... Read On
Comment: Region Must Move Away from Autocentricity
October 31, 2011|San Diego Union Tribune
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Today, the 18 cities and county of San Diego are due to make a fateful decision regarding the future of our region. Through SANDAG, these agencies will establish the region's transportation network for the next 40 years...
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Blogosphere: Electrification and Carbon Emissions
October 27, 2011|Pedestrian Observations
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Railvolution reports FTA numbers that say the average CO2 emissions of the New York City Subway are 0.17 pounds per passenger-mile (48 grams per passenger-km). That's the equivalent of 114.6 passenger-mpg of gas, if you prefer to think in those terms... Read On
Blogosphere: Eating Real Food
October 25, 2011|Metropolis Magazine
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Only a species as clever as ours would need to designate a "Food Day" to celebrate and promote the prospect of "eating real food." Seriously. But the problems with our food system are, as we know, very serious indeed... Read On
Blogosphere: Can Your Neighborhood Make You Sick?
October 25, 2011|Metrotrends Blog
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Obesity and diabetes threaten more and more Americans, especially those who can't afford good medical care. And as Sue Popkin has noted, residents of distressed public housing projects suffer at unusually high rates... Read On
Research: Do New Playgounds Increase Activity?
October 4, 2011|Journal of Urban Health
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This study assessed whether an upgrade of playgrounds in a community was associated with changes in the physical activity of local children. The study used a natural experiment design with a local authority project to upgrade two community playgrounds as the intervention and a matched control community... Read On
National: A Different Spin on Urban Cycling
October 4, 2011|Wall Street Journal
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Two recent studies appear to expose cyclists as a potent urban menace. Bicycle riders pose a danger to themselves and to pedestrians, according to the studies. Bicycle commuters have 2.3 times the black carbon, or soot, in their lungs as do noncyclists, according to a U.K. study whose results were applied to cities world-wide... Read On
National: Trees in Transit
October 3, 2011|Next American City
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Changes in transit design that aim to make roads and car traffic safer are one critical component of the complete streets movements underway across North America. Vehicle usage is responsible for staggering CO2 emissions, human injury and death, energy consumption, and more... Read On
