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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The investor backed proposed California tech city is now reframed as ship building hub and gains more local support
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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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Parking reform alone can boost homebuilding by 40 to 70 percent
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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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In Northeast D.C., a rancorous post-election fight erupts — over bike lanes
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A Traditional City primer
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Traffic will never be fixed here: The benefits of the diverging diamond, and why it's still not enough to fix traffic
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After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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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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The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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The Costco of housing is…Costco?
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The traffic model deceit: how US highway agencies manipulate data to justify wasteful expansion
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Chicago built 50+ miles of new bike lanes, increasing cyclists by 119% and dramatically reducing fatal collisions
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The future of land use and incremental development
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Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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Evaluating the significance of San Lorenzo Village, a mid-20th century suburban community
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California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
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Arlington Virginia missing middle trial heralds legal fight over suburban zoning
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Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots
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How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
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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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Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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Long untouchable, fire departments are causing death and homelessness in American cities by advocating for bad policies
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All the ways car dependency is wrecking us – car harm: a global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
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Spotting visual signs of gentrification at scale
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Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
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Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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The battle for Central Park
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Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
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