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Rainworks: Water-Activated Street Art & Games in Rainy Seattle
Rainworks are pieces of street art that only appear when wet, featuring messages, images and interactive games that work great for a city infamous for its frequent precipitation. The idea, in part, is to encourage people to enjoy the rain, and reward those who go out and play in the gathering drizzle.
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The Dark Underworld of the Paris Catacombs
Paris, the capital of France, is often called La Ville Lumière (meaning ‘The City of Light’), however, beneath this bustling European city of 12 million people, lies a dark subterranean world holding the remains of 6 million of its former inhabitants. These are the Paris Catacombs: a network of old caves, quarries and tunnels stretching hundreds of miles, and seemingly lined with the bones of the dead.
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Photos: Inside China’s unknown mega-city
Tim Franco, a Paris-born photographer now based in Shanghai, has spent the past five-plus years documenting the intense change that urbanization has brought to the Chinese mega-city of Chongqing. Until 1997, Chongqing was a neglected city in the poor Sichuan province. It is two hours by plane to any of China’s richer and better-known cities like Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen. It clambers for space between mountains and rivers—the massive Yangtze tears a winding path through the city...
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Power returns to DC after widespread outage
A power outage affected much of Washington D.C. and large swaths of southern Maryland on Tuesday, touching even White House and State Department facilities. Pepco, the D.C. electric services provider, initially said it had scattered reports of outages for "unknown" reasons, and that it was looking into the matter. Government officials later pointed to an explosion at a southern Maryland power facility as the likely cause for the regional issue.
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End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile
Gilles Vesco calls it the “new mobility”. It’s a vision of cities in which residents no longer rely on their cars but on public transport, shared cars and bikes and, above all, on real-time data on their smartphones. He anticipates a revolution which will transform not just transport but the cities themselves. “The goal is to rebalance the public space and create a city for people,” he says. “There will be less pollution, less noise, less stress; it will be a more walkable city.”
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Chinese builder puts up 57-story skyscraper in 19 days
A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world's fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.
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California residents cut water use by hefty 29% in May, officials say
Drought-weary California received encouraging news Wednesday when officials announced that residential water use had dropped 29% during the month of May -- the first real indication that the state might meet unprecedented conservation reductions imposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Wild in the Streets: A 24-Hour Field Guide to New York City
In the city’s urban jungle, the natural world still thrives around the clock. Meet the ctenophores and helleborines next door.
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Canberra is a perfect canvas for the future of transport. So why is it buying a 130-year idea?
So why is this city buying trams, which are a 130-year-old idea?
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How Our Success is Ruining Seattle - Jeff Reifman
The economic boom affecting the Emerald City driven by Amazon and other tech companies is ruining Seattle as we know it. Here's how we can change that.
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Baltimore Restaurant Opens its Doors to the Homeless
Later this July, restaurants in Baltimore will band together to celebrate the city’s Restaurant ...
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Business Travelers Are Using Ubers More Than Taxis
For the first time, according to expense software company Certify, business travelers are hailing Ubers more than they're hailing cabs.
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Uber Has Forced Taxi Drivers to Step Up Their Game
During a taxi ride late one night a few years ago, a cabbie started berating me for asking him to drive the 25 minutes from downtown D.C. to my home in Maryland. At the time, I thought to myself, At least he took me. In the past, some drivers had simply refused. And, like many other cab riders, I came to expect that his cab’s credit-card machine would be mysteriously “broken” when it came time to pay.
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The end of urban sprawl? Ambitious plan to fit CITY inside skyscraper
An stunning set of designs has envisaged what an entire city within a single skyscraper could look like. The 'Vertical City' project features a futuristic-looking tower, which would be population-dense yet still feel spacious, holding 25,000 people at any given time. Unlike traditional skyscrapers, which are self-contained and shut off from the natural environment, the 180-floor building would allow the outside world to become an intrinsic part of the interior.
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San Francisco uses 'pee-proof' paint
Janitors everywhere are rejoicing. San Francisco city officials are implementing a new "pee-proof" paint around the city to combat the persistent problem of public urination. Public Works crews have painted 10 walls in the city with a special UV-coated, urine-repellent paint, according to CNN affiliate KPIX. Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was inspired by a project in Hamburg, Germany, where walls in a night club district were coated with the liquid-repellent paint.
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Bangkok is sinking and may be underwater in 15 years, study says
A new report from Thailand's government says that Bangkok, its capital city and home to some 14 million people, could be underwater in the next 15 years thanks to a combination of sinking land and rising global sea levels. The conclusion comes from Thailand's National Reform Council, which issued a report last week that warned "immediate and costly solutions are needed to avert a catastrophe," caused by "excessive pumping from the [underground] aquifer...
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This Wharton Grad Wants You to Live in His Shipping Containers
Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container. The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure.
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Road from Europe to U.S.? Russia proposes superhighway
London to New York City by car? It could happen if the head of Russian Railways has his way. According to a March 23 report in The Siberian Times, Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed a plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway that would link his country's eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska, crossing a narrow stretch of the Bering Sea that separates Asia and North America.
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Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
In 1981, a young writer named David Brodsly described the Los Angeles freeway as one of the city's indispensible metaphors, “one of the few parts capable of standing for the whole.” He argued that the freeway had expanded “the realm of the accessible” for drivers in Southern California — that it was a powerfully democratic force, in essence — and lent “a new clarity” to a vast metropolitan region that newcomers had long found illegible and tough to grasp.
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Drone flies high to deliver 'smarter Glasgow' report
Glasgow became one of the UK's first "Smart Cities" following a £24m grant under the Future City programme. The grant, offered by the UK government's Technology Strategy Board, aimed to stimulate technology-enabled innovation. Glasgow Chambers of Commerce has published a report detailing how technology will impact on the city centre over the next five years.
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