Category: Advocacy

Advocacy

Is Wall Street Making a Killing off Cities’ Debt? – Next City

Is Wall Street Making a Killing off Cities’ Debt? – Next City. Most cities are relying on debt to finance wide swaths of infrastructure, or economic development, or public works projects. We've grown too big for our britches, and infrastructure is a huge part of the problem. Property taxes collected no longer cover the costs … Continue reading Is Wall Street Making a Killing off Cities’ Debt? – Next City

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Looking Outside the Borders: The bicycle boom in Seville, Spain

by Zach Vanderkooy, Bikes Belong Foundation. Originally published in the Alliance for Biking & Walking 2012 Benchmarking Report. Seville’s embrace of the bicycle is decidedly 21st century. As recently as 2004, bicycling in this city of 700,000 was seen as a fringe activity for elite athletes and people too poor to own a car. There … Continue reading Looking Outside the Borders: The bicycle boom in Seville, Spain