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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
Machine learning technique viewed as boon to urban research
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Newmarket School 1912
Empty school in Newmarket, Ontario.
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Upon Leaving Wasaga
Peeling paint, rusty metalwork and weathered wood are three great signs that you've just found a place worth exploring.
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Abandoned in Alberta
Hadn't been out for a while so we took a little detour to see her - always special.
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Adventures of a Serial Trespasser
Bradley Garrett, a photographer and researcher with a background in anthropology and archeology, has spent the past five years of his life exploring hidden and forgotten parts of cities all over the world.
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What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning
The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community engagement. So why are tech companies such bad urbanists?
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The Growth Of Cities, Predicted By The Laws Of Physics
Physics can help us model everything from cell growth to the movement of planets. Apparently, it also understands how cities live and die.
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Car-Free City: Hamburg Announces Audacious 20-Year Plan
Germany may be known for its green political party and sustainable energy focus, but this daring plan to eliminate the need for automobiles entirely across the country’s second-largest metropolis is fresh and bold by any standard.
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Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All
The Street Life Project, as it was called, was revolutionary in urban planning, changing not only the way we think about public spaces but also what can be learned in this kind of close observational research of human interaction. Whyte believed that if we knew how, say, the placement of benches, or a plaza’s orientation to the sun, affected people’s enjoyment of a public space, then we could go beyond mere observation into the realm of smarter policy.
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10 Failed Utopian Cities That Influenced the Future
Some of the most famous cities in history were never built. These 10 Utopian cities may have been failures, but they expressed our ideas about what the future of human civilization could look like. And many ideas contained in them continue to influence us today.
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The Brutally Beautiful Wastelands of Outer Moscow
The seam where a city meets the country is an uncanny place. It's not rural, yet not exactly urban, either, a non-place often full of half-finished streets and isolated developments. Most of us only see these environments through the windows of our cars, but photographer Alexander Gronsky has spent the last four years in Moscow's outskirts, watching and photographing.
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The slow decline of American Chinatowns
Chinatowns are a feature of many US cities, but some of the best known are succumbing to gentrification, campaigners say. Even one of the largest and most vibrant, in Manhattan, is slowly being invaded by luxury shops and apartment buildings.
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes and Mangoes in an Urban Jungle
Hong Kongers are finding inventive ways to grow sweet potatoes, mangoes, and other edible goodies in an urban jungle.
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Life at an Incredible Height
In Mumbai, paltry regulation means hundreds of new skyscrapers bring more lows than highs. Photographs of new construction, with titles named after the buildings’ advertising slogans.
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Tiny Worlds
The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in "Tiny Worlds", a trilogy of micro-shorts with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking.
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The Top 10 Secrets of Grand Central Terminal
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, Untapped New York is revealing the top ten facts you didn't know about Grand Central.
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17 Impossibly Colorful Cities You’ll Want To Visit Immediately
The word pretty isn’t often associated with the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. But gazing across the hills toward the notorious Santa Maria favela, you might think differently.
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The Outlaw Instagrammers of New York City
Trading selfies for skyscrapers.
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Unlocking the Mystery of Paris' Most Secret Underground Society (combined)
Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris.
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Half the DNA on the NYC Subway Matches No Known Organism
The results of a massive new DNA sequencing project on the New York City subway have just been published. And yup, there's a lot of bacteria on the subway—though we know most of it is harmless. What's really important, though, is what we don't know about it. The PathoMap project, which involved sampling turnstiles, benches, and keypads at 466 stations, found 15,152 life-forms in total, half of which were bacterial. The Wall Street Journal has created a fun...
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