What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
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Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
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London's BT Tower to be turned into a hotel after £275m sale
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‘We’ve lost the art of city building’: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?
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The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing.
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The small Norwegian city of Bergen has a competent light rail system – let's take a look at the Bybanen in depth
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More lanes are (still) a bad thing
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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The extraordinary world of fake cities, and simulated urban environments
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Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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Electric cars are not the future – In cities at least, e-bikes make more cultural and consumer sense
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Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
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Why American cities are squalid
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Is it realistic to operate a fleet of electric buses in countries like Norway? Tackling challenges with the range of buses being shorter in cold weather.
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Hive cities: Reality or fiction?
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ABBA's holographic dancing queens have had a tangible impact, adding over £320 million of money, money, money to London's economy in its first year
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In a win for the climate (and safety), urban US speed limits are dropping
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The Masterplan vision for Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled
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Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
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San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness?
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The old new way to provide cheap housing
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Amsterdam to cut speed limits 40% to improve road safety
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New lives in the city: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul
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Helsinki Airport clears runway snow in just eleven minutes – why do some airports cope better with snow than others?
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Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
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‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network
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The engineering challenges of Grand Paris Express, Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
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From Vækst to Gro Spiseri, these six outstanding Danish restaurants offer a Nordic dining experience that stands out from the crowd in Copenhagen
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London's traditional Christmas tree has been felled in Norway ahead of its trip to Trafalgar Square
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Is Los Angeles’ transit Olympics-ready?
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Driving over every London Thames bridge in a day
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A high-tech ferry in Sweden could soon set a new standard – Candela says its hydrofoil technology reduces the energy per passenger-kilometer by 95%
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
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Iranian-born Norwegian man is charged over deadly Oslo Pride attack in 2022 – four other suspects are linked to the shooting but have not been charged
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Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins
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Public health experts say narrow lanes should be the default on US city streets
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Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle
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How Montreal built a blueprint for bargain rapid transit
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SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
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At a Helsinki nursery, children spend all day in the forest – how outdoor learning benefits children's health and teaches them to value nature
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Chicago doesn’t own its own streets
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Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store
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Who gets peace and quiet?: The dangers of urban noise
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A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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Biking the goods: How North American cities can prepare for and promote large-scale adoption of cargo e-bikes
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Stockholm has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre, in an effort to slash pollution and reduce noise
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Why don't cities use hexagon blocks?
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Bedbugs are becoming a big headache in Paris ahead of Olympics
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