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Closing Open Streets (with City Beautiful)

The Urbanist Agenda

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The Ugly City of Toronto

In Amsterdam, they recently closed off a street in the city center and ripped it up. They turned it into like a little parklet, but took the tram tracks and just made them grassy. Is that something that's even feasible in the US given the budgets these people are working with? "The guinea comes back to money here," he says.

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