Patrick Maynard is a reporter whose work has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including VICE, The Independent, Truthout, and The Baltimore Sun. He lives in Berlin.
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Can a major city go car-free? Berlin might know soon enough
A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan.
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