Chicago Dug the World’s Biggest Flood-Stopping Tunnel. What if the City Got It Wrong?

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What if the Only Way to Save Houston From Flooding Is to Destroy Part of It?

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Shanghai and Beijing Have Stopped Growing—but Not on Their Own

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American Cities Are Squandering Some of Their Most Valuable Real Estate: the Curb

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Beautiful Visualizations Reduce 25 American Cities to Their Design Essence

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A California Politician Proposed a Common-Sense Fix to the Housing Crisis. Here’s Why (Almost) Everyone Hated It.

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Are Our Roads Ready for Self-Driving Cars?

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New York’s Coming Subway Crisis Is a Chance to Try Something Radical. Instead the City Has No Plan.

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Ben Carson Is the Latest in a Long History of Federal Insults to HUD’s Important Work

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Cities Are Cutting Public Transportation Because They Think Uber Will Fill the Gap. They’ll Regret It.

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The Best Way to Tell if Your Neighborhood Is Well-Designed: Count the Trick-or-Treaters

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How Jane Jacobs Saved Your City

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Ginkgo Trees Smell Like Vomit. Why Do We Plant Them All Over Our Cities?

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Two Designers Want to Turn an Old Swedish Grain Silo Into a Vertical Cemetery

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Most of the World’s Subways Have a Smart, Simple Fix for Overcrowding. Why Does the U.S. Resist It?

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A Utopian, Futurist Housing Project in Cambodia Has Seen Better Days

Erin Hale

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What the Transformation of a Notorious Apartment Tower Says About the New South Africa

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Gentrification Is a Myth

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The Self-Driving Tesla Might Make Us Love Urban Sprawl Again

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Tony Hsieh and the Dark Side of Techtopia

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