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Half a century ago, the Danish capital was dominated by cars. But following grassroots campaigns to change policies and streets, including replacing car parking with safe, separated bike lanes, Copenhagen has increased its biking share of all trips from 10% in 1970 to 35% today.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
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Nominal figures are not adjusted for inflation. A comparison of the nominal cost of a government program in 1970 to the nominal cost of the same program in 2011 merely compares the size of the checks that the Treasury wrote in those two years—without any recognition that a dollar in 1970 bought more stuff than a dollar in 2011.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
Predatory realtors made a nice scapegoat, but the reasons for white migration to the suburbs were more complex. As unseemly as their tactics may have been, the agents were responding to a real need. Black homebuyers desperately sought decent housing, and they had little access to the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
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