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  • How Dutch Transit Agencies Fend Off Fare Evaders

    January 08, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Dutch public transportations are trying some innovative techniques to cut down on fare-evaders, emphasizing that consequences for those evading fares should not just impose fines but convince them to become ticket buyers. Other strategies include barring access to stations themselves without tickets and including a card pre-loaded with 10 rides when a person is penalized for fare-evading.

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  • Rebuilding a City from the Eyes of a Child

    December 17, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Albania, Tirana

    Making adults change their habits and viewpoints is hard. Helping children change is easier. That’s the basic principle around which the recent recreational development of Tirana, Albania is based. By making green spaces more pedestrian and kid-friendly, government leaders and urban planners are starting to see benefits, starting with the youth. In turn, they hope children will be able to positively help their parents change, seeing the value of green and car-free development.

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  • How Temporary Tiny Homes Could Solve Dutch Cities' Housing Crises

    November 26, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam

    While more permanent housing is built to meet demand in the Netherlands, the stopgap answer is to build “tiny homes.” Completely built in a factory, these tiny homes still provide all basic housing amenities. They will be laid out in clusters of four and in larger communities to overcome what some worry will be isolating for many people who have nowhere else to turn. As an interim solution, these tiny homes are perfect-but they aren’t built to last, so the goal is to get residents into more permanent housing.

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  • A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris

    October 10, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: France, Paris, Paris Region

    Climate-adapted schoolyards are just one way that Paris is adjusting and preparing for climate change under the leadership of Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Although it hasn't been simple and has involved a shift in cultural perception of nature,

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  • Barcelona Finds a Way to Control Its Airbnb Market

    June 06, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Swamped by short-term vacation rentals, Barcelona pushed Airbnb to share data with government officials and help ensure that only licensed properties are listed on the site. The agreement offers a model for how other cities can respond to the same problem.

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  • London's Big Push for Better Design

    May 23, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Public Practice is the name of a new London social enterprise that is placing top urban planners in local government authorities. The program aims to incorporate skilled urban planners in essential city tasks: building affordable housing, developing better infrastructure, and improving city spaces. Though only in its first year, the program hopes to continue to help “London build more inclusive spaces.”

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  • How Vienna Conquered Its Own Filth

    June 27, 2017 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    With the staggering amounts of garbage produced by modern lifestyles, waste disposal is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for communities around the world. Vienna has tackled the trouble of trash with an innovative system, channeling the heat from incineration to warm homes and provide hot water, recovering reusable items from the waste stream and selling them in a special shop, and proactively educating the populace about how to reduce waste.

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  • Stockholm's Ingenious Plan to Recycle Old Christmas Trees

    December 20, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    In Stockholm, old Christmas trees are being converted into biochar. When integrated into the city's highly-efficient power grid, the project has been wildly successful--not only in improving soil, but also in retaining groundwater, greening the city, and lowering carbon emissions. For this reason, officials as far away as California have been eying the plan with interest.

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  • The Rent Is Now Somewhat Less High in Paris

    August 03, 2016 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    France’s cities, including Paris, are among the world’s most expensive to live in. In 2015, France passed rent control laws that restrict outlandish rent increases through the Rent Observatory that oversees the different zones and contracts, as well as a website that tells residents if their prospective landlords are charging too much. One year later, the regulations have been effective at controlling the rent by 30% in Paris.

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  • Berlin's New Rent Control Laws Are Already Working

    July 09, 2015 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    To address the increasing unaffordability of housing in Berlin, the city introduced a new rent control law to prevent rates from exponential growth. The city has also outlawed vacation rentals in certain zones of the city and created a program that aims to have 30,000 new rental properties available over the next decade.

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