Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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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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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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Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
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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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Why Kansas City’s free transit experiment matters
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Are Washington DC's streets finally getting safer?
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How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement
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The evolution of urban planning in ten diagrams
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Why we need to dream bigger than bike lanes
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Why speed kills cities: US 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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Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat
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The lonely death of a south Texas skyscraper
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In Denmark's train dream the next big city is only an hour away
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How Utrecht became a paradise for cyclists
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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 Frankfurt Kitchen changed how we cook—and live
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'Uber was supposed to be our public transit'
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In car-choked Brussels, the pedestrians are winning
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Could Hawaii be paradise for hydrogen-powered public transit?
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Cities don’t have souls. Why do we battle for them?
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A modest proposal to eliminate 11,000 urban parking spots
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How the tuberculosis epidemic influenced modernist architecture
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Five rules for designing more walkable cities
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Why did America give up on mass transit? (Don't blame cars)
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Let’s rethink what a ‘bike lane’ is
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The high cost of saving travel time - Transportation network companies (Uber/Lyft) vs public transport
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