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Thousands of Children Will Be Protesting Climate Change By Skipping School Today

We actually spoke to some teachers ahead of the big day about that, and they all reluctantly backed ... and pupils on strike – and despite it being a public holiday in the city of Berlin, even the 8th ... read more

The entire city of Paris will be car-free for a day

On October 16, it will be possible to walk from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to the Place de la Nation, roughly two hours away, and barely encounter a moving car. The entire city will be car-free for ... read more

China loves its copycat towns: from a replica of Shakespeare’s home to the boulevards of Paris

is actually a luxury housing development on the outskirts of a city in the southern province of Guangdong. Costing state developers 6 billion yuan to construct, the detailed replica is visited by ... read more

Paris experiments with 'car-free day' across the city

Parisians were encouraged to roller-blade, bike or stroll through the City of Light on Sunday for a "car-free" day intended ... in a different way," said Paris city transport official Christophe ... read more

The Cars That Ate Paris

The story of how Paris let cars eat it away—and then bit back—is worth a closer look. This is Part 1 of CityLab ... city policy was all about cars, there was still strong resistance. The Lower Quays ... read more

Five of the most radical car-free city experiments

After just one day the ... The city’s ambitious plan is to become car-free within two decades – and one way it wants to achieve that is by creating linked green spaces which would cover some 40% of ... read more

Paris goes car-free this Sunday

On Sunday, Paris institutes its first car-free day, banning most vehicles from the ... The closure is unprecedented for the French capital and opens the entire city center to pedestrians only for one ... read more

The healthy way to get around our cities

Cape Town’s low density has resulted in public transport being difficult to operate at a high service level across the entire city ... The mayor says Paris also plans to double its bike lanes by 2020. ... read more

10 cities that are starting to go car-free

When Paris banned cars with even-numbered plates for a day in 2014, pollution dropped ... all cars will be banned from the entire city center. The city is looking for more ways to expand its car-free ... read more

A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris

The schoolyard of Paris’s Avenue Daumesnil École Maternelle doesn ... This October, for example, the city announced that it will make car-free days a monthly occurrence in its innermost ... read more