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The Rio You Didn’t Know Existed
Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.
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The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Neighborhoods
Harlem is no longer an all-Black mecca and there are scores of White people who are beginning to receive mail at addresses on Martin Luther King Boulevards across this nation. With this integration comes an array of situations that our Caucasian comrades might not be prepared for. Never fear. By Michael Harriot / NegusWhoRead.
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Inside the impossible life of a New York street vendor
Street vendors find themselves in a war for the right to be ambitious in New York City – and with its massive police presence, Times Square is a frontline. By Molly Crabapple.
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Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for “adversaries and hybrid threats,” and that the U.S. Army is unprepared. By Nick Turse.
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‘We are building our way to hell’: tales of gentrification around the world
From community displacement in Mexico City to tourism-triggered evictions in Lisbon and crazy rent hikes in Silicon Valley, our readers shared stories of gentrification happening in their cities – and the initiatives trying to tackle it. By Francesca Perry.
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The Greatest Social Challenge of our Generation
Ponder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts. By Charles Marohn.
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Out of Reach Hawaii
As the road and rail networks on the island of Oahu expand, so a ferocious tug of war is intensifying over its untouched wilderness. Breena Kerr takes to the wheel along the most beautiful highway in America and explores whether it's better to keep the country country.
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Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
Modern cities are ruled by cars. Streets are designed for them; bikers, pedestrians, vendors, hangers-out, and all other forms of human life are pushed to the perimeter in narrow lanes or sidewalks. Truly shared spaces are confined to parks and the occasional plaza. This is such a fundamental reality of cities that we barely notice it any more. Some folks, however, still cling to the old idea that cities are for people, that more common space should be devoted to living in the city rather than getting through it or around it.
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The Resilience of Cities
From the ruin porn of Detroit to China's ghost towns, images of failed growth haunt our imaginations. But Darran Anderson, the author of Imaginary Cities, argues that humanity is robust enough to survive its own poor planning.
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Soylent CEO’s shipping container home is a ‘middle finger’ to LA, locals say
Rob Rhinehart lacks permits for his ‘experiment in sustainable living’ and has ignored a removal order, which may lead to criminal charges, authorities say. The windows are smashed, the walls are covered in graffiti, and the solar panels gone. By Rory Carroll.
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The rise and fall of great world cities: 5,700 years of urbanisation – mapped
Recent research provides a better understanding of urban populations throughout history, digitising almost 6,000 years of data for the first time. By Kanishk Tharoor. (June 27, 2016)
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Where ‘Not in My Backyard’ Prevails, Equality Does Not
A growing body of economic literature suggests that efforts in America aimed at things like “maintaining neighborhood character” contribute to segregation and lead to stagnation.
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The sky's no limit: unusual uses for urban roof space – in pictures
From detached houses to running tracks to bee keeping, the scarcity of space in world cities means innovative uses are found for otherwise wasted rooftops. (Gallery)
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A One-Stop Guide to Designing the Streets of the Future
A recently published report by the National Association of City Transportation Officials includes insights from dozens of officials and practitioners across North America.
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How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities
When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone in her quest to understand what really makes a city.
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Tomorrow's Buildings: Construction industry goes robotic
The building site of the future is going to look very different to the one we are all used to today. Instead of men in high-visibility jackets and hard hats, there are going to be drones buzzing overhead, robotic bulldozers and 3D printers churning out new structures. That at least is the hope of those making technological solutions. But first they have to convince the traditionally risk-averse construction industry that such change is necessary.
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Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a Whole New Level
In Singapore’s “Smart City,” sensors deployed by the government will collect and coordinate data on an unprecedented level. Now Singapore may soon be known for something else: the most extensive effort to collect data on daily living ever attempted in a city. As part of its Smart Nation program, launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in late 2014, Singapore is deploying an undetermined number of sensors and cameras across the island...
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The Value of a City's 'StreetScore'
An ongoing project from MIT uses an algorithm to predict the safety of streets, helping researchers and urban planners better understand cities.
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The Fading Distinction Between City and Suburb
As high-income people return to cities and urban neighborhoods, they bring much of their suburban lifestyle with them.
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A Brief History of Co-Living Spaces
Those Millennial-filled compounds aren’t all that different from 19th-century boarding houses. Co-living isn’t just a product of our current housing crisis. It has served as a de facto social network of urban transplants for generations.
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