Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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The Palisades Fire destroyed more than 1,200 buildings. Yet one newly built home—surrounded by ashes and charred foundations—stood almost untouched. How did it survive when its neighbors didn’t?
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Stoop coffee: How a simple idea transformed my neighborhood
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Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta Georgia's ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?
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While ambitious urban planners try to make fifteen-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better – what's life like when everything you need is a stroll away?
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Copenhagen's once-industrial port has been planned to make everything, from schools and play areas to businesses and recreational spaces, accessible within five minutes
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What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
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Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City’
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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Surprising detail in New York bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants
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Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
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Berkeley's upzoning would be among America's largest
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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So, you want to plant some trees
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The old new way to provide cheap housing
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How neighbors got New York Police Department to stop parking on a school sidewalk after forty years
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Philadelphia to cap section of I-676, reconnecting Chinatown
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Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
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Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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The trees on Xenia Street
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In Moorhead, a rare opportunity to hit reset button on entire downtown
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Why are so many 55+ neighborhoods being built?
Living in northern Virginia, it seems like half of newly-constructed homes are earmarked for "active adult" 55 and up communities. Is there a financial incentive above and beyond normal...
Living in northern Virginia, it seems like half of newly-constructed homes are earmarked for "active adult" 55 and up communities.
Is there a financial incentive above and beyond normal residential construction that these are popping up more?
It seems like a newer trend that's picked up in the last 5 or 10 years.
Edit 1: Thank you all for the input and sharing your perspective. It's just been a question hanging in the back of my mind as I've been driving around in recent months.
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Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
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Tell me about the best urban neighborhoods you've lived in
I'm relocating soon and trying to find the right spot for me. I don't want this to be an individual recommendation thread though. Instead, just tell me about your favorite urban neighborhoods —...
I'm relocating soon and trying to find the right spot for me. I don't want this to be an individual recommendation thread though. Instead, just tell me about your favorite urban neighborhoods — what you love about them, what isn't so great, and what makes them stand out from the rest.
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Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence
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A peer reviewed paper on walkable neighbourhoods finds that walkability improves residents' happiness
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How American HOAs became an unnecessary necessary evil
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The climate impact of your neighborhood, mapped
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood.
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How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand
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Changing Brussels neighborhood Molenbeek tries to leave stigma of terrorism behind
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Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
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A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods
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Denmark's hippie, psychedelic oasis Christiania turns fifty – celebration over four days includes parades, speeches, exhibitions, workshops, shows and concerts
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Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
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Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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More development would ruin our neighborhood’s character and that character is systemic racism
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The eco-yogi slumlords of Brooklyn
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
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Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight
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Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’
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Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live in this block of flats – it's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness
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There's no such thing as a dangerous neighborhood
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How poor Americans get exploited by their landlords
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When Minneapolis segregated
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