One woman and thousands of lego bricks are building much-needed wheelchair ramps for her town
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Life Imitates Hollywood: The Rise of "Movie-Set Urbanism"
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There's No Such Thing as a Dangerous Neighborhood
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Housing Discrimination Made Summers Even Hotter
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
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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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Would Capping Office Space Ease San Francisco’s Housing Crunch?
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UrbanFootprint: a SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY Reimagine Downtown Brooklyn
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New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things
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New York’s Subway Map Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
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Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere
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The Dutch Hardly Bike At All
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The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams
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Frank Gehry's Most Ambitious Project: Restoring the Los Angeles River
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Why We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
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Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
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Every bus in the US deserves its own lane
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Why New York City Stopped Building Subways
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The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies
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The myth of green cars
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Barcelona's car-free 'superblocks' could save hundreds of lives
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A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man
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Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea
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Why Uber is a Slow-Motion Tragedy for Our Cities
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Why Speed Kills Cities: U.S. cities are dropping urban speed limits in an effort to boost safety and lower crash rates. But the benefits of less-rapid urban mobility don’t end there.
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Rethinking the Good City: Vallejo’s Bold Vision
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Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
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A Small City with Big Delusions: Pine Island, MN (population 3,000) has huge dreams, yet they can’t take care of their basic systems. Who pays the price?
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Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from
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Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
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Car-Free in L.A.? Don't Laugh.
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Food trucks have multiplied in Seattle — and with that come growing pains
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Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat
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Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal
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Invasion of the electric scooter – can our cities cope?
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Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning
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Could Barcelona’s plan to push out cars and build superblocks work in the US?
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Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower
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Can Car-Crazy Dallas Learn to Love Bikes?
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The Magic of Roundabouts
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Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments
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Indonesia Plans To Move Its Capital Out Of Jakarta, A City That's Sinking
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Indonesia President Joko Widodo plans to move capital city: Planning minister
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A highway runs through it: Inside the push to tear down an Oakland freeway
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Cities Don’t Have Souls. Why Do We Battle For Them?
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To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
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