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Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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• Why are Americans so suspicious of roundabouts?<\/a> The United States now has about 2,000 roundabouts, a strikingly small figure in comparison to Australia, a country with a similar “traffic landscape” yet whose traffic-fatality rate is half the size of America’s.<\/p>\n

• The recent subway accidents in Washington and San Francisco have been stoking America’s fear of rail travel<\/a>.\u00a0 Yet if the numerous daily car accidents were given similar media coverage, the public might be singing a very different tune.<\/p>\n

• Public art projects have been selected for downtown Sydney, Australia laneways<\/a>.\u00a0 Many of the eight projects are themed around climate change and the relationship humans have with the environment.<\/p>\n

• ‘Dumpster diving’ has taken on a whole new meaning in industrial Brooklyn, where Dumpters have been converted into swimming pools<\/a> and are being used as the star attraction of a new ‘lo-fi urban country club.’\u00a0 The ‘club’ opened earlier this month and features three connected ‘dumpster pools,’ a boccie court, grills, cabanas and several lounge chairs.<\/p>\n

• Daylighting has taken root in Seattle, where Thornton Creek now flows above ground<\/a> for the first time in decades.\u00a0 Formerly a parking lot, the stream spans nearly three acres and provides a natural filter which cleans the runoff from neighbouring streets in the surrounding 600 acres of the city.<\/p>\n

• Proposals are being made to remove the I-10 elevated Expressway<\/a> that runs along North Clairborne Avenue, New Orleans.\u00a0 Before the arrival of the I-10 in the 1950s, some remember North Clairborne as the “black people’s Canal street,” where huge oak trees and gardens divided traffic and lively businesses and shops lined the street.<\/p>\n

• Prague now boasts a beach of its own right in the centre of the city<\/a>.\u00a0 Copying earlier projects in Paris<\/a> and Berlin<\/a>, beachgoers in Prague can play volleyball and badminton with the towering spires of St. Peter and St. Paul in the background.<\/p>\n

Photo by Gerard McGovern<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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