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Kim Dovey, Merrick Morley and Quentin Stevens Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Author provided Outdoor dining on former parking spaces – generally known as parklets – has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reduced demand for parking coincided with increased demand for outdoor space – but when the pandemic subsides, cities must decide what comes next. Is this a temporary change before we return to the car-dependent city, or can it help us create a better city? A map of parklets across Melbourne in April 2021. Author provided What has happened is that one kind of temporary private appro...

Outdoor dining on former parking spaces – generally known as parklets – has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reduced demand for parking coincided with increased demand for outdoor space – but when the pandemic subsides, cities must decide what comes next. Is this a temporary change before we return to the car-dependent city, or can it help us create a better city? A map of parklets across Melbourne in April 2021. Author provided What has happened is that one kind of temporary private appropriation of public space (parking) has been traded for anoth...

Date Time Data Shows How Pandemic Changed Day-to-Day Life AUSTIN, Texas – For an entire year now, the pandemic has upended life. Using publicly available data, researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have quantified the many ways day-to-day activity has changed since the pandemic began. The researchers pulled data from 11 sources to create a new online dashboard that documents major changes in Austin. The dataset includes traffic patterns at hundreds of intersections throughout the city, COVID-19 case counts by ZIP code, water usage, real estat...

US crude oil inventories climbed during the week ended Feb. 19 as severe winter weather across the Southern states pushed refinery demand to 12-year lows, US Energy Information Administration data showed Feb. 24. US commercial crude stocks climbed 1.28 million barrels to 463.04 million barrels last week, EIA data showed, leaving them 0.3% above the ...

US crude stocks, refinery runs expected lower amid Texas deep freeze US crude oil inventory draws likely extended during the week ended Feb. 19 as severe weather across the southern states shut in production, according to analysts surveyed by S&P Global Platts. Total commercial crude stocks are expected to have declined 4.8 million barrels to around 457 million barrels last week, analysts said Feb. 22, leaving them 1% behind the five-year average of US Energy Information Administration data. The drawdown would mark a fifth week of falling inventories and would open the first deficit to the fi...