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How Vancouver Invented Itself
"Vancouverism" is synonymous with tower-podium architecture, green space, and breathtaking views. But the city's development process is sometimes overlooked.
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Home demolitions will turn blighted Detroit neighbourhoods into blank canvas
The families of Detroit’s Brightmoor area are delighted that the day is finally approaching when bulldozers will arrive to level more of their neighbourhood. After that, their community’s future will be like the cleared landscape – a blank canvas.
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Kiruna: How to move a town two miles east
This spring work will begin to move Sweden's northernmost town two miles to the east. Over the next 20 years, 20,000 people will move into new homes, built around a new town centre, as a mine gradually swallows the old community. It's a vast and hugely complicated undertaking.
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Floating City concept by AT Design Office features underwater roads
Cities that float on water could offer an alternative to destroying the earth's valuable countryside according to architecture studio AT Design Office, who has developed a concept for an ocean metropolis.
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How America’s fourth-largest city can abandon its addiction to cars
In Houston, taking the bus is a measure of last resort. But that might not be the case for long
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Scientists Question China's Plan To Bulldoze 700 Mountains
Faced with a shortage of land, officials in Lanzhou City, in China's Gansu province, embarked on a project in 2012 to bulldoze more than 700 mountains. Now, almost two years in, a group of Chinese scientists have questioned the undertaking. They criticized the "largest mountain-moving project in Chinese history" in a June 4 article published in the science journal Nature.
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10 Million Sardines in a Sea of Skyscrapers
Two hundred years ago, just 3 percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, cities hold more than half of all people on Earth. The number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year, a trend driven by rapid industrialization, rural-urban migration, and globalization. If this pace continues, by 2050 over 70 percent of people will call cities home.
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Listen up, America: It’s time to start making mass transit free!
Thought it might seem counterintuitive, city governments have much to gain by letting riders off the hook
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The Simplest, Yet Smartest Solution for Finding a Parking Space.
S-Oil launched the HERE campaign. The idea is to use balloons to help car drivers finding empty parking spaces quickly. Simple, yet so smart.
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In this Chinese city, phone addicts get their own sidewalk lane
Some places have lanes for bicycles, others for motorcycles, but there's a place in mainland China that boasts a different type of lane altogether: one for phone addicts glued to their screens. According to a Chinese publication, the cellphone lane above was spotted along a place called Foreigner Street in Chongqing city, one of the five major cities in the country.
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Barcelona wins $6.5 million urban innovation prize
Barcelona won a global urban innovation contest sponsored by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies. It's winning project is to create a network of support for elderly residents.
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Downtown Las Vegas Is the Great American Techtopia
Tony Hsieh, the charismatic CEO of Zappos.com, is turning the downtrodden, recession-hit heart of Las Vegas into an entrepreneurial playground.
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Our cities' water systems are becoming obsolete. What will replace them?
Population growth and global warming are stressing our water supplies. Here's how we'll adapt.
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Karim Rashid’s East Harlem HAP Building Gets a New Color Scheme After Much Opposition
After much outcry, the Karim Rashid-designed residential building at 329 Pleasant Avenue in Harlem will be getting a new color scheme. According to the WSJ, locals have voted to scrap HAP Five's colo
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Trenton mayor calls for selling properties for $1
The mayor of New Jersey's capital city wants to sell vacant properties for as little as $1 to those who pledge to fix them up. The concept is among several announced Tuesday by Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson to try to deal with the estimated 6,300 vacant properties in the city. That is nearly one-fourth of the properties in the city, something that officials believe is a major...
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Tiny 'Thin Home' In Vancouver Sells For $1.35 Million
Believed to be the last of its kind, a rare "thin home" has sold in Vancouver for $1.35 million. Built in the late '80s and tucked away in the city's upscale Point Grey neighbourhood, the split-level home is a mere 3.6 metres (12 feet) wide. The floor space is only 945 sq.-ft., but manages to cram in a full kitchen, master bedroom, living room, garage, den and 1.5 bathrooms, according to its listing.
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A green workspace in the city – but will the treehouse office catch on?
The strange, translucent structure encircling a tree in a London square is a pop-up pod that blurs the boundary between workplace and nature
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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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Big News: Tiny Parks Coming Soon To A Parking Spot Near You
The District of Columbia opened its first semipermanent tiny park. The parklet's creators hope the new space will encourage pedestrians to hang out, while others worry about losing parking spaces.
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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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