Gothenburg's experience with congestion pricing has been notably less triumphant – a cautionary tale about tolling downtown drivers
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Copenhagen emerged as The Economist's Most Livable City for 2025 – Western Europe scores dropped with a rise in terrorism threats, riots, crime and anti-Semitic attacks
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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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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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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What robotaxis brought San Francisco
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Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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Denmark has become a wedding destination for people looking to tie the knot without too much paperwork
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Why are there so many car washes?
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Atlanta’s squatter problem is vexing Wall Street landlords
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British pubs keep getting demolished and rebuilt
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Iceland keeps feeding its tourist boom. Will it push locals out? – about six times as many visitors as residents came to the tiny island last year
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Amsterdam to cut speed limits 40% to improve road safety
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Los Angeles is on a transit-building tear. Will riders follow?
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Norway's Fyllingsdalen tunnel is a showstopping piece of urban cycling infrastructure – for a city where car-centric development still dominates
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A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends – and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board
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Free transit in Stavanger, Norway, places the city in a growing vanguard of municipalities that have made buses, trains and trams free at point of use
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New York City is cleared for first-in-US congestion tolls as soon as April
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The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water
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British Columbia embarks on bold experiment to decriminalize hard drugs - Possession of small amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs will be allowed in Canada’s westernmost province
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Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
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How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents
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Spain to introduce free train travel
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Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space
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For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction.
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What’s driving the huge US rent spike?
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What Internet memes get wrong about Breezewood, Pennsylvania
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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Don't even think about socially isolating from coronavirus in a vacation home – this was the message from Norway's government this weekend
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The forgotten story of America's first EMT services
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Calling out the super polluters
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Why Detroit residents pushed back against tree-planting
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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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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Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
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A group of mothers, a vacant home, and a win for fair housing
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
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Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
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What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
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What ‘livability’ looks like for Black women in the US
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When Minneapolis segregated
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Would capping office space ease San Francisco’s housing crunch?
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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How valuing productivity, not profession, could reduce US inequality
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