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 ~design urban planning architecture Article 1369 words, published Sep 26 2022 8 votes
Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 net zero target casts doubt on other major climate plans – pledges to cease contributing to climate change demand greater scrutiny ~enviro climate change Article 6 votes
Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution ~enviro pollution.water water.storm Article 2122 words, published Aug 2 2022 11 votes
Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree ~design urban planning architecture Article 1521 words 6 votes
‘A profound betrayal of trust’: Why Jackson’s water system is broken ~society Article 3390 words, published Mar 24 2021 8 votes
Pajtim Statovci shares his love of Finnish literature and the books that helped him, a child of immigrants, to find his voice ~books Article 1136 words, published Sep 14 2022 5 votes
The real reason Egypt is moving its capital away from Cairo ~design urban planning Video 10:36, published Sep 7 2022 6 votes
Why Chicago's skyline is insanely well designed ~design urban planning architecture Video 13:15, published Sep 8 2022 3 votes
Halting way to the right road – Dagen H is the day Sweden switched to driving on the right in 1967 ~transport Article 802 words 8 votes
San Francisco to launch pilot program paying people not to commit gun crimes ~news usa.ca.san francisco crime Article 285 words, published Sep 1 2021 4 votes
Lars Kepler, pen name of husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of Stockholm ~books Article 1271 words, published Jun 22 2022 6 votes
With a reputation for having more authors per capita than any other country, Olaf Olafsson leads a literary stroll through Iceland's capital ~books Article 1540 words 3 votes
What Twitter’s move to shutter offices signals for Big Tech ~life work.remote Article 609 words, published Aug 3 2022 11 votes
World's fastest electric ship will set sail in Stockholm next year – Candela P-12 is a thirty-passenger 'flying ferry' that will reach speeds of thirty knots ~transport Article 849 words 6 votes
Freya the walrus sinks boats and captures hearts in Norway – enchanting but unwittingly destructive 600kg marine mammal has taken up residence in Oslo fjord ~enviro Article 411 words 7 votes
Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years ~enviro climate change Article 725 words 9 votes
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong ~design urban planning Article 2042 words 10 votes
Three killed in shooting at Copenhagen shopping centre – 22-year-old Danish man in custody as police chief says too early to speculate on the motive for the shooting ~news denmark.copenhagen crime Article 604 words 8 votes
Pride protesters in Norway have defied police by holding an LGBT rally in Oslo days after a queer venue in the capital was the target of a deadly attack ~lgbt Article 9 votes
Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making ~arts art.installation painting Article 848 words 9 votes
A subway shooting in NYC exposed many of the problems facing the city’s transit system ~transport Article 3554 words, published May 14 2022 7 votes
CNN's Nic Robertson tours an underground bunker in Helsinki, Finland, housed in a parking garage. The Finnish capital's bunkers can shelter more than 900,000 people. ~life Article 7 votes
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe only allows writers on a deadline, and won’t let them leave until finished ~life Link 8 votes
How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand ~design urban planning Article 1039 words 24 votes
Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view ~arts art painting Article 787 words 7 votes
Can foreign direct investment (FDI) help Helsinki's demographic challenges? ~finance business Article 1277 words, published Mar 3 2022 3 votes
Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same ~design architecture urban planning Video 20:09 14 votes
The bewildering architecture of indoor cities ~design architecture urban planning Video 13:12, published Feb 10 2022 6 votes
Dutch cities are better for the climate… and my sanity ~enviro sustainability climate change Video 13:08 10 votes
Changing Brussels neighborhood Molenbeek tries to leave stigma of terrorism behind ~life Article 1362 words 4 votes
Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in ~life Article 1020 words, published Dec 7 2021 6 votes
Inside the fall of Kabul: An on-the-ground account ~life Article 17 237 words, published Dec 10 2021 6 votes