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The Twilight of the Indoor Mall
“That’s the Dillard’s dead zone. Nothing can survive over there.” By Mike Nagel, (Nov. ’14)
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How can I visit Chernobyl, and is it safe?
Can there be a more unlikely location for visitors than the corner of Ukraine that was the site of one of the most notorious and disturbing incidents ever to cast a shadow across our planet? Cast your mind back, if you will – and if you are of a suitable age to remember – to the bleakness of the east European spring three decades ago, and ask yourself: Could you ever imagine that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant would be a tourist destination?
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40 Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
New York City’s zoning code turns 100 this year. That may not sound like cause for celebration — except maybe for land-use lawyers and Robert Moses aficionados. Yet for almost every New Yorker, the zoning code plays an outsize role in daily life, shaping virtually every inch of the city. The bays and cliffs of the Empire State Building come from zoning, as do the arcades and plazas of Park Avenue.
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Abandoned Orient Express Train in Belgium
Brian is a photographer who lived in Rotterdam. He explores abandoned places. One of his series concerned the Orient Express...
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The secret history of Cincinnati's ghost subway
It’s early June in Cincinnati and the city is steamy after a recent rain. Elderly women fan themselves at bus stops. Tattooed tweakers panhandle in Fountain Square. Men in sweat-stained oxford shirts line up for lunch at Skyline Chili. Downtown is threadbare and lightly populated — everyone is either in their temperature-controlled offices or sitting in their cars, windows up, AC blasting, immune to the outside world.
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See the Crumbling Concrete Dwellings of an Abandoned Japanese Island
Tiny Hashima Island was Mitsubishi's coal mining base for nearly a century.
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Confessions of a Watch Geek
My year of getting deep into perlage, three-quarter plates, and micro-rotors.
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I found a fully stocked underground safe house...
Seemed abandoned, but it had electricity and ventilation, so... While walking through the territory of a factory, located in the industrial area of the city, I noticed a weird concrete block with a metal gate on the side of it. I opened it and a latter climb later I was in a dark, small tunnel leading to an underground bomb shelter/safe house.
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$554K price tag to replace iconic tree at top of condo building
A tree that towered over Vancouver for 30 years is gone, and condo owners are on the hook for its replacement.
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The haunting magic of ghost buildings.
A ‘ghost building’ isn’t a haunted mansion or a spooky house.. in fact it isn’t a building at all. But rather, ghost buildings are the outlines of a demolished building that is no more, but you can still see their imprints preserved on a shared party wall.
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Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Before a single raindrop fell, Alan Leidner knew the waters could rise and throw the city into darkness. On this point, the maps were as clear as a crystal ball. All you had to do was look. It was 2010, and Leidner was consulting for the government services company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., contracted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical infrastructure. Leidner was examining a region that included New York and New Jersey. One day he was thinking about the area’s electrical power grid.
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Urban Foxes and Coyotes Are Learning to Make Nice
“There’s something unusual going on here in the city.”
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A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash
It's tempting to think of sacred tombs and ancient monuments as our best window into other cultures. But nope. Just look at the history of sanitation in NYC.
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The origins and demise of Delray
Once a thriving, independent village, Delray’s often-feared demise may finally become a reality.
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Detroit Urbanism: The Mound Builders
What is the oldest human-made structure in Detroit?
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These cities are better at enduring extreme heat. Here's what they're doing different
Blistering heat has returned to western Europe, as some countries like France enter into their third wave of the summer with temperatures expected to reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), while more than 80% of the US population will experience temperatures over 90 degrees (32C) within the next week, including in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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