Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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The end of "The End of San Francisco"
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Choosing a school in a segregated city
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What Internet memes get wrong about Breezewood, Pennsylvania
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Can kids navigate their way across London alone?
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Where Americans are moving
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A look at Próspera, the charter city taking shape in Honduras
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The rat tribe: Meet the million migrant workers living beneath Beijing's streets
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To see how a city embraces remote work, just look to Helsinki – a deeply rooted culture of trust is crucial to the success of remote working
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A group of Copenhagen residents sued the Danish government Wednesday over legislation that authorized dismantling neighborhoods designated as ghettos
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The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
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Copenhagen retains its crown – annual global liveability survey from ECA International rates cities on their quality of life for Europeans abroad
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There's no such thing as a dangerous neighborhood
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Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
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Denser housing is gaining traction on America’s east coast
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'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
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In some towns in Finland, one-person households are now a majority
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From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square
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In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
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When Oslo's first floating sauna was banned by port authorities, its owners took it on the run, sparking a public craze
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What happened to Christiania's dream of becoming Denmark's hippie paradise?
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Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
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'If we don’t kill these people they will kill you': Policing Africa's largest slum
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Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
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“NEOM” may be our future
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The future of the city is childless - America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births
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Denmark's housing minister wants to scrap ghetto label for underprivileged areas
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Rent and its discontents: Against the landlords and the police, in cities poisoned by wealth
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Can tourism ruin cities?
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How apartheid killed Johannesburg's cycling culture
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‘It’s getting like Disneyland’: Bruges pulls up drawbridge on tourists
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'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
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Gender-segregated swim hours create hot water in some city pools
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Here comes the neighborhood: Many US cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
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People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
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Removing love locks from bridges and statues
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Affordable housing crisis: Why are US cities struggling?
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One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire
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Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’t.
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From 2003 to 2007 a 24 year old Iraqi woman in Baghdad kept an online diary. In chronicling life under occupation the blogger "Riverbend" gave a perspective largely missing from English media.
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The end of the American Chinatown - How renewed interest in downtown living is threatening neighborhoods that long provided a first stop for new immigrants
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'Will I have existed?' The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city
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30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis
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Cats are no match for New York City’s rats
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Houston is the new capital of southern cool
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Why are cities still so segregated?
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New tool maps every active construction project in NYC in real time
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In the Cape Town enclave that survived apartheid, the new enemy is gentrification
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How the everyday commute is changing who we are
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Three Canadian cities make top ten on global ranking of most livable cities
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