Across Europe, a growing number of city centers are limiting car traffic — and in some cases, eliminating it entirely. New zoning policies and urban planning measures have instead shifted the focus to ...

Once an area of soulless parking lots and bygone shipping yards, San Francisco’s newest neighborhood, Mission Rock, just south of downtown, is now a waterfront work-live-play district. Here, open ...

If you're tired of traffic, gas prices, and circling for parking, you're not alone—and the latest rankings prove it. Some U.S. cities are making it easy to skip the car altogether, thanks to smart ...

Zermatt, a town in Switzerland, the city famous for its breathtaking Alpine scenery and its car-free rules. People get around using electric taxis, horse-drawn carriages, or simply by walking, helping ...

According to a new study by StorageCafe, Rochester is one of the top 10 cities in the U.S. where residents can live car-free. Across the country, cities are reimagining their traffic infrastructure to ...

The idea is something out of a progressive utopia. And while the thought of car-free cities might be far-fetched, there are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When planning a trip without a car, small U.S. cities can be surprisingly rich in walkable charm. For this list, the focus was on ...

There are benefits to promoting pedestrian spaces and public transit and multimodal transportation in urban areas.

Ithaca was recently ranked the top car-free city in the “very small metro” category by CityLab.com, a digital publication specializing in city life. The news that Ithaca topped the car-free charts was ...

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