Articles by Tim De Chant
Tim De Chant is the creator of Per Square Mile and an environmental journalist. You can also find him on Twitter.
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Levitt to Beaver: Suburbia gets a mixed-use makeover
Designers set out to make Levittown, N.Y. -- the original suburban gold standard -- more livable and less car-dependent.
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Put your money where your miles are
The Netherlands plans to start taxing motorists for how much they drive. Could this and other European innovations to reduce traffic take root here?
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Trying to make China's planned cities livable
Two brothers, an architect and a developer, team up to make new Chinese cities more people-friendly, easing the transition from rural to urban living.
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When 'starchitects' build art you can't escape
Work-of-art buildings by Frank Gehry or I.M. Pei often take prominent roles in cities across the globe -- but they fail at creating a sense of place
