Monthly Archives: June 2019

The path along the Kamo River in Kyoto

Anyone who likes cities to be lively and full of people at all hours would appreciate cities in Japan.1 There are large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists not only in the central business districts but also in many of the … Continue reading

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The very slow improvements over several decades in Boston’s recreational-trail facilities

In the 1980s I wrote a paper on the then-mostly-new recreational trails that had come into being in many North American cities. In most places, these trails were quite fragmentary. They were built where it was easy to build them, … Continue reading

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