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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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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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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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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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$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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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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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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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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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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Just Watch How Many More People Use Bike-Share Space Vs. Parking Spaces
Witness how bike share brings foot traffic.
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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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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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World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Switzerland
The world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened in Switzerland on Sunday, a ribbon-thin span nearly a third of a mile long that challenges hikers to proceed in places at nearly 28 stories above ground. Officials in the south of Switzerland unveiled the bridge after just 10 weeks of construction. It measures 1,620 feet long and rises as high as 278 feet above the Grabengufer ravine. The span is also impossibly narrow, at just 25.6 inches wide.
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Houston’s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant
The city's gung-ho approach to development has destroyed the area's natural ability to drain away hurricane floodwaters.
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Pollution levels in Bolivia plummet on nationwide car-free day
Air pollution levels have plunged in cities across Bolivia as the country marked a nationwide car-free day in which all non-emergency vehicles were banned from city streets. As Bolivia’s middle-class population has increased over the past 10 years so has the number of cars clogging city streets. The car-free event started 18 years ago in Cochabamba, one of Latin America’s five most polluted cities, and has gradually taken root across the country.
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The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing congestion
The legislation will create a more uniform standard of regulation for the industry.
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Smart cities must focus on networks and governance first, apps second
In the race to become "smart," many cities are reaching for the bright, shiny (IoT) objects. Instead, they should plan the infrastructure required for implementing truly innovative services and systems.
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The ancient abandoned city Teotihuacan was designed in a remarkably modern way
Entire city was planned on a carefully thought-through grid system.
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Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
Instead of focusing on freeways, governments should change the way we pay for urban roads and public transport.
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The Miracle of Minneapolis
If the american dream has not quite shattered as the Millennial generation has come of age, it has certainly scattered. Living affordably and trying to climb higher than your parents did were once considered complementary ambitions. Today, young Americans increasingly have to choose one or the other—they can either settle in affordable but stagnant metros or live in economically vibrant cities whose housing prices eat much of their paychecks unless they hit it big.
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