The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects
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To see how a city embraces remote work, just look to Helsinki – a deeply rooted culture of trust is crucial to the success of remote working
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Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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If the Louvre was on fire, should we rescue the art first or the people?
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Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
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The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish”
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London Tube map made from a working circuit board
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Greek demonstrators hurl firebombs towards US embassy in Athens
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Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight
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One of Copenhagen Zoo's giant pandas escaped from its enclosure early on Monday and roamed the park before staff were able to sedate it and bring it back
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South Korea re-imposes some coronavirus restrictions after spike in new cases
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At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners
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Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages
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A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working?
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Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy
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China ends Wuhan lockdown after more than ten weeks, but normal life is still a distant dream
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The lockdown effect
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The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro
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Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’
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Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, Muriel Bowser order residents in Maryland, Virginia, DC to stay at home
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India’s poor flee cities in mass exodus
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An unreal city: Lockdown in London
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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Coronavirus lockdown launches Manila into pandemonium
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Five Picasso murals in Oslo are at the center of a major controversy – the murals are scheduled to be moved in the name of preservation
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The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
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Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities, report finds
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Why Detroit residents pushed back against tree-planting
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Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling
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Copenhagen retains its crown – annual global liveability survey from ECA International rates cities on their quality of life for Europeans abroad
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Life imitates Hollywood: The rise of "movie-set urbanism"
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The Danish capital, which was designated the European Green Capital in 2014, is trying to do everything it can to make Euro 2020 as green as possible
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Copenhagen's third annual Light Festival sparked into life over the weekend, with colourful displays from artists and designers
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Here are the routes for the Danish stages of the 2021 Tour de France, which will take place on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th next year
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There's no such thing as a dangerous neighborhood
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Danish police seize Hyde Park mansion owned by Sanjay Shah, British businessman accused of defrauding Danish taxpayers
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Stockholm has been named 'smartest city in the world' for its innovations on the environment, digital technology and residents' wellbeing
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Copenhagen fashion week announces radical sustainability goals – hopes to transform it into a platform for advocacy with tough new environmental requirements for participants
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Megadrill to build power highway below Stockholm's landmarks – Sweden's growing capital needs more electricity for homes and new industries
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Oslo may see just fifty days of snow deeper than 30cm in 2050, down from eighty days today and 140 days in 1900
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China to bar eleven million residents from leaving Wuhan, the city at the centre of coronavirus outbreak
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Copenhagen crowned Europe's healthiest city – factors included things like life expectancy, the percent of GDP allocated to healthcare and the cost of fruit and vegetables
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Stockholm street just became the first in Sweden to ban old diesel cars – 4,000 of the 24,000 cars that use Hornsgatan every day will now be forced to take a detour
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Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies
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Finland has expressed interest in a new high-speed train that would connect its capital Helsinki to Moscow in just six hours
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
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