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Toronto man builds park stairs for $550, irking city after $65,000 estimate
A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem.
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IoT low-power WAN expected to improve quality of life in India's cities
Experts discuss potential impact and improvement of low-power edge computing benefits on rapidly modernizing cities.
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Just Watch How Many More People Use Bike-Share Space Vs. Parking Spaces
Witness how bike share brings foot traffic.
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China Has Officially Started Construction on the World's First "Forest City"
The world's first "Forest City," designed to fight pollution and climate change, is under construction in China. Covered in greenery and trees, it will absorb nearly 10,000 tons of CO2 and 57 tons of pollutants yearly, and produce 900 tons of oxygen.
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If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Just Take Away The Parking Spaces
Oslo had a plan to lower its emissions by drastically limit car travel in its center. Now you can drive, but it might not be worth it.
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The 'moss wall' that helps cities breathe
University friends from Germany have created a "CityTree," which filters toxic pollutants from the air with the power of moss.
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Who owns the data that makes a city smart?
Cities use technology to assist residents, and data is a byproduct of that effort. But who owns the data and how it's used is up for debate, and it often depends on where you live.
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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 New Suburban Crisis
Once the key driver of the American dream, the suburbs have reached the end of a long era of cheap growth. Now their advantages to economic mobility have nearly disappeared. By Richard Florida.
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Uber Endorses Charging Drivers to Use Congested Roads
Andrew Salzberg, Uber’s Head of Transportation Policy and Research, this week declared the company’s support for road pricing, a plan that would have cities or transit authorities charge drivers for using roads during peak times. Urban planners in recent decades have discovered that building more and bigger highways, surprisingly, doesn’t do much to reduce congestion (a phenomenon known as "induced demand"). Instead, as Salzberg puts it, “the cost of driving ultimately needs to reflect its cost to our cities.”
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Ten of the World's most Incredible Rooftops
A new book celebrates amazing urban spaces in the sky. Fiona Macdonald picks out ten projects that have helped transform cities across the globe.
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World's Weirdest and Most Amazing Bridges
Some of these marvels of engineering curl, tilt and even breathe fire. Explore the world's strangest bridges.
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NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world — that's a problem
Today, New York City is celebrating the opening of the first phase of the Second Avenue subway, a project that’s been anticipated for nearly a century, and that’s sorely needed to relieve overcrowding on the Lexington Avenue lines and to extend access to some very densely populated neighborhoods. But exciting as the opening is, phase one is also a very modest-sized project encompassing just three stations. The plan is, eventually, to extend it up into East Harlem, and potentially then either go further south or...
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10 mph Moving Sidewalks Could Make Crosstown Buses Obsolete
Perhaps you’ve been stuck behind the wheel on a city street, cursing your fellow drivers and feeling tempted to abandon your ride and hoof it the rest of the way. As you pound the horn and pump out toxins, you dream of a carless future, when cities have banned all private vehicles and turned the open pavement over to walkers, bikers, and streetcars that hover silently above the ground. But maybe you suspect there’s something missing from this scene...
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Reinventing density: co-living, the second domestic revolution
While some forms of co-living seek to match modern lifestyles and a desire to downsize, other profit-driven models simply exploit a lack of affordable housing alternatives.
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Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do
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Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
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Guerrilla Bike Lanes Show Cities How Easy It Is To Make Streets Safer
Since the city won't keep bikers safe, a group of San Francisco bikers is taking matters into its own hands, using a very simple tooltraffic cones.
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America’s First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was For…Town Planning
Urban planning was once considered an Olympic sport, and Brooklyn’s Marine Park won a medal. By Jack Goodman.
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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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