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An old idea returns again: London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans to pedestrianize Oxford Street in a bid to revive its fortunes bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has an ambitious moonshot proposal to eliminate road deaths in America bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab

Cargo bikes have quickly gone from practically nowhere to seemingly everywhere, saving cities from polluting half-empty vans. New from Laura Laker bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab

This is cool bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Move over, Marble Arch Mound! Shanghai has spent £225m and 30,000 tonnes of steel and concrete to build its very own Twin Hills... theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Citizens of South Sudan's capital grapple with a lack of power, running water, salaries and medicine as the nation's key revenue source dries up trib.al/sK7VelE

The booming UK university town of Cambridge is seen as an economic revival model. But not everyone is sharing in its success. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab

Thread 🧵 Alert 🚨: 1) Bulawayo residents go for five 1/2 days a week without any running tap water. The water cuts tend to go beyond the schedule worsened by power outages which affect pumping of limited supplies, making a bad situation, even worse. Read: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Rail Baltica high-speed rail project plans to slash journey times across the Baltic States and re-orient the region's rail network towards the rest of the EU. Since the war in Ukraine, its objectives have become yet more acute. But is it going awry? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

CityLab contributor Alexandra Lange wins a Pulitzer Prize for her essays on family-friendly design bloomberg.com/news/newslette…