Iran's president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concerns
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As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters
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The final line in Los Angeles's holy trinity of future rail: Vermont corridor
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For the relocated Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost settlement, located above the Arctic Circle, planners prioritised infrastructure links over microclimate
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Cycling is revolutionising transport
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Helsinki is turning to drones and artificial intelligence to help tackle one of the city's trickiest challenges - keeping traffic moving smoothly
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The genius plan to make Amsterdam car centric
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Entire church to be transported across Kiruna in Sweden – landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms
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The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Data-driven city planning helped.
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Sweden's secret to wellbeing? Known as koloniträdgårdar, tiny urban gardens provide city dwellers access to nature, fresh produce and community.
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China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and sponge parks
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The best-designed town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world) - Houten
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1940s New York City streetview
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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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The densest city in the world had a strange secret
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Inside Denmark's super-efficient S-tog rail system
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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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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Why does Athens look so quirky?
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
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Bergen is a city on the West coast fjords of Norway, surrounded by mountains. And they just built the best bicycle tunnel in the world.
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Massive sinkholes put hundreds in Amazonian town at risk
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These two cities used to be the same - London, ON vs Utrecht and difference between their infrastructural development
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‘Worst-case scenario’: when needed most, New Orleans bollards were missing in action
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