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15 votes
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Spotting visual signs of gentrification at scale
11 votes -
Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
49 votes -
Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
17 votes -
Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
8 votes -
The battle for Central Park
3 votes -
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
13 votes -
Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
13 votes -
‘We’ve lost the art of city building’: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?
25 votes -
The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing.
42 votes -
Berkeley's upzoning would be among America's largest
20 votes -
More lanes are (still) a bad thing
32 votes -
The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
23 votes -
Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
27 votes -
The case for American single-stair multifamily
26 votes -
You don't need a license to walk
41 votes -
US traffic control device standards get long-awaited update
14 votes -
The Masterplan vision for Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled
15 votes -
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
17 votes -
Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
5 votes -
The old new way to provide cheap housing
18 votes -
Barcelona car free super blocks have social benefits - help reduce loneliness
23 votes -
Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
16 votes -
Joe Biden administration offers $35 billion in low-interest loans to support US transit-oriented development
24 votes -
Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
36 votes -
Public health experts say narrow lanes should be the default on city streets
18 votes -
Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle
8 votes -
SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
14 votes -
Why Norway, the poster child for electric cars, is having second thoughts – we can't let them crowd out car-free transit options
43 votes -
Chicago doesn’t own its own streets
18 votes -
How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
6 votes -
Who gets peace and quiet?: The dangers of urban noise
23 votes -
Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky
6 votes -
Stockholm has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre, in an effort to slash pollution and reduce noise
10 votes -
Why don't cities use hexagon blocks?
15 votes -
Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ neighbors have no voting rights to stop it
19 votes -
Can NYC ease housing costs with ‘City of Yes’ proposal?
14 votes -
Norway's Fyllingsdalen tunnel is a showstopping piece of urban cycling infrastructure – for a city where car-centric development still dominates
11 votes -
How Santiago, Chile builds effective transit, the fastest in the Americas
11 votes -
'We are really struggling with space': Amsterdam pushes more cars off its streets but is it enough?
31 votes -
Ending minimum parking requirements was a policy win for the Twin Cities
16 votes -
How much of your US city is parking lots?
30 votes -
Tech billionaires launch California ‘utopia’ website
55 votes -
The blight of bright white LEDs
I feel like I'm the only one noticing this and it's driving me crazy. With everyone transitioning away from incandescent, it seems like anywhere you go now there are these blindingly bright and...
I feel like I'm the only one noticing this and it's driving me crazy. With everyone transitioning away from incandescent, it seems like anywhere you go now there are these blindingly bright and high color temperature LED lights. Of course, if LEDs are better and more energy efficient we should use them. But whenever I've tried buying LED bulbs, they've been consistently brighter and higher color temperature than the stated lumens and Kelvin. And a lot of times, it's just extremely difficult to find LED bulbs for certain shapes at a reasonable luminosity. Like our house uses a lot of BR30 bulbs that are supposed to be around ~400 lumens, but the lowest you can possibly find is 650.
I'm genuinely concerned what effect this is going to have on our shared spaces and even potentially our psychology/circadian rhythm. There's an especially egregious example on an important cultural street in the city, where there's this truly blinding light in a parking lot about a third the way from the edge to the center of the district that makes the entire immediate area extremely unpleasant to be in. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
63 votes -
Here’s what it takes to get speed humps approved on just one US block
25 votes -
American cities don't take sidewalks seriously, costing pedestrians their lives and communities
35 votes -
Can infill development save cities?
6 votes -
The insane ways traffic engineers try to make streets "safe" for walking
23 votes -
The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
36 votes -
Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
5 votes