For five hours this Sunday, some 10 miles of normally car-crowded Los Angeles streets will be closed to vehicular traffic and turned into a massive block party for cyclists, pedestrians, joggers, even stilt-walkers.

FORBES: LA's 10-Mile-Long Block Party

Some drivers took three hours to travel about five miles from the Tore Roundabout in the Black Isle to a roundabout across the bridge.

BBC: Kessock Bridge. Pic: Dan Holland

Some drivers were facing delays of three hours to travel about five miles from the Tore Roundabout in the Black Isle to a roundabout across the bridge.

BBC: Kessock Bridge. Pic: Dan Holland

Each night, thousands of children, some only four or five years old, leave their villages and walk for miles to the safety of Gulu, the biggest town in northern Uganda.

NPR: Lost Generation Grows in Uganda

That year, Jones learned about a plan to construct a five-hundred-and-forty-bed juvenile-detention center some twenty miles east of Oakland, in Dublin.

NEWYORKER: Greening the Ghetto