{"id":2417,"date":"2025-01-30T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:17:03","slug":"europe-is-leading-the-way-to-more-car-free-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/europe-is-leading-the-way-to-more-car-free-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is Leading the Way to More Car-Free Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car-free neighborhoods are rare in the\u00a0 United States, but they are common in Europe because they improve air quality, reduce noise, and allow streets to be used for sidewalks, bike lanes and outdoor public space.\u00a0 The tranquility that results from silencing that cacophony can lead to flourishing street life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-07-31\/the-quiet-power-of-car-free-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-07-31\/the-quiet-power-of-car-free-neighborhoods<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780804141512\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car-free neighborhoods are rare in the\u00a0 United States, but they are common in Europe because they improve air quality, reduce noise, and allow streets to be used for sidewalks, bike lanes and outdoor public space.\u00a0 The tranquility that results from silencing that cacophony can lead to flourishing street life. The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/europe-is-leading-the-way-to-more-car-free-cities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Europe is Leading the Way to More Car-Free Cities&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,53,55,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-global","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}