Tag: suburbs

Is Car-Free Living Possible in the Suburbs?

How can eco-friendly transportation be improved in the suburbs? When contemplating whether to live in a city or in the...

Organic Waste Collection And Composting In The Works For Israeli Municipalities

Hey, are you gonna use that? Israeli residents may soon be able to put their banana peels to good...

Expats claim UAE is diet-proof

Exercise in the United Arab Emirates: If more people did it, maybe the UAE wouldn't be the 18th fattest...

Beer Sheva's Old City Battles Shopping Malls

One of the most pressing needs in countries with little open space is to make urban life desirable enough...

East Jerusalem Getting First Mall

You heard it here when Jenin got a mall-ish furniture superstore. Now East Jerusalem is also joining the trend. ...

Are Suburbs Making Israeli Kids Fat?

A study released last week shows that more than one in five Israeli schoolchildren is overweight. According to Haaretz,...

Lebanese Expats Build Suburbia in Bint Jbeil

According to Lebanon's Daily Star, the war-ravaged southern town of Bint Jbeil is remaking itself as a suburban summer...

Palestinian Mall Chain Could Bring Suburban Living to West Bank

One of America's most enduring gifts to the Middle East is the suburban indoor shopping mall. Israel's first was...

Vauban, the German Suburb without Cars

Do you ever get the feeling that every time you close your eyes, someone in Europe is doing something...

Is Israel on the Brink of a Suburban Sprawl-a-Thon?

As the Green Prophet's resident suburbs commentator, I read with interest this week that part of newly elected Prime...

Life in the Suburbs in America and Israel

On of the most depressing bus rides I have ever taken in Israel was a late-night local from Kfar...