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Los Angeles routinely ranks as one of the most congested cities in the US. Yet a new study says it offers greater accessibility to employment than any other metropolitan area in the country

Time-consuming commutes are said to be bad for us but new data from the car-centric USA shows most commutes aren’t that long. The key problem with commuting isn’t time but how far we travel

Planners seem seduced by the idea that cities are just lots of self-contained villages. But that view misunderstands what cities are about and why they form.

We’re cycling to work in increasing numbers but we’re less inclined to ride locally. On the face of it, local trips would seem better suited to cycling. Perhaps it’s about the attractiveness of the alternatives

Despite the growing numbers of cyclists on the streets in peak hour, cycling’s share of all work trips is small in all mainland capital cities and barely increasing

There’s a long thread at Sydney Cyclist dealing with Rissell and Gillham’s contention that cycling has declined significantly in Australia since the 1980s. Rissell and Gillham say the number of cyclists dropped on a per capita basis “by 37.5% between 1986 and 2011.” I discussed some technical aspects of this issue on 22 June 2012, [...]

The Grattan Institute released a new report, Social Cities, under its Cities Program this week. The report addresses “worrying signs that isolation and loneliness are increasing in Australia”. The data shows, it says, “that people’s friendships and neighbourhood connections have diminished over the past two decades”. Notwithstanding the title, the report only addresses city design. [...]