The Cablebus transformed commutes in Mexico City’s populous outskirts ~transport Article 77 words 4 votes
A radical fix for Britain’s housing crisis: A new offshore city ~design urban planning Article 77 words 3 votes
Denmark has become a wedding destination for people looking to tie the knot without too much paperwork ~life relationships Article 77 words 23 votes
Cities are cracking down on short-term rentals. Here’s how. ~society politics Article 77 words 23 votes
Barcelona plans to ban all short-term rentals for tourists from 2029 ~travel Article 77 words 64 votes
A 2,000-mile Bangkok to Beijing train trip gets closer with trial run ~transport Article 77 words 9 votes
Amid marijuana legalization, a civic problem lingers: that smell ~society politics Article 77 words 35 votes
Muji has a prescription for the loneliness epidemic in Japan ~design architecture Article 77 words 10 votes
The 24-hour city: In a push to bolster nightlife, cities are changing laws to keep bars, restaurants and transit systems operating round-the-clock ~life Article 77 words 34 votes
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 ~life housing Article 77 words 8 votes
Seoul’s solution to ‘hell train’ commutes? Standing room only subway carriages. ~transport Article 77 words 15 votes
Mumbai bids farewell to beloved double-decker buses made famous by Bollywood films ~transport Article 77 words 10 votes
Can NYC ease housing costs with ‘City of Yes’ proposal? ~design urban planning Article 77 words 14 votes
Norway's Fyllingsdalen tunnel is a showstopping piece of urban cycling infrastructure – for a city where car-centric development still dominates ~transport Article 77 words 11 votes
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends – and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board ~design architecture Article 25 votes
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 ~transport Article 12 votes
New York City is cleared for first-in-US congestion tolls as soon as April ~transport Article 45 votes
The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water ~enviro sustainability Article 7 votes
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 ~health.mental Article 10 votes
Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea ~enviro water.sea energy Article 6 votes
How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents ~transport Article 7 votes
Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space ~finance Article 7 votes
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. ~design urban planning Article 12 votes
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 ~design architecture urban planning Article 9 votes
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 ~design urban planning Article 6 votes
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 ~design architecture Article 13 votes
Don't even think about socially isolating from coronavirus in a vacation home – this was the message from Norway's government this weekend ~health healthcare Article 8 votes
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. ~tech privacy Article 3 votes