How Sweden is taking back parking spaces to improve urban living

An experiment with the ‘one-minute city’ gives priority to pedestrians and cyclistsIt was a couple of parking spaces a few days ago. But now the area outside Malin Henriksson Talcoth’s gourmet sausage shop in Gothenburg has a bench, a picnic table and racks for cycles and e-scooters. It also has people talking, eating and enjoying themselves, despite subzero temperatures.The workmen had arrived the previous week and built the wooden unit with benches facing, importantly, toward