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What the Dark Knight knows about holding our urban lives together
"The Dark Knight Rises" might be a crazy movie full of plot holes -- but it understands the systems that serve as the vulnerable hearts of our cities.
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What other cities can learn from Seattle’s troubled ‘deep green’ building program
Three years ago, Seattle challenged developers to build the next generation of uber green buildings -- but few answered the call. What can we learn?
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Super-freaky train station design looks like a spider laying eggs
The proposed structure for a Vienna train station looks like a mutant pregnant insect depositing its egg sacs.
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Elephants in the room: Urban poverty, climate change, and other problems we love to ignore
When times get tough, Americans seem incapable of having rational discussions about our most pressing issues. As a result, they’ve been erased from the political discourse. The implications are downright ugly.
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Glow-in-the-dark solar bikes = rad
If anyone hits you while you are riding this bike, provided you are still alive, you would be totally within your rights to scream at them, "Are you blind?"
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America’s silent housing crisis calls for a fresh, greener approach
Habitat for Humanity has made a name for itself building new houses for poor people. Meanwhile, there is a silent crisis among those who can’t afford to keep up the homes they’re already in.
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Impress all your air-breathing friends with a car that runs on air
Look, down on the ground! It’s an orange mole with no face! It’s a Weeble that says "air" on the side! It’s an M&M with wheels! No, it’s an Airpod -- a car that runs on compressed air.
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LEGO Brooklyn is just as cool as the real thing and has fewer obnoxious residents
Jonathan Lopes' 400-square-foot replica is accurate down to minute details and features landmarks like the Fairway in Red Hook, Fire Engine House 226, and the A train.
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Former Twitter CEO’s dream home is SF neighborhood nightmare
Evan Williams wants to build a net zero energy home in a historic San Francisco neighborhood. Who could possibly object to an internet entrepreneur using his hard-earned cash to build an eco-friendly house?
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Now you can buy organic air in a can
I’m pretty strongly against most of the ideas in Mel Brooks movies becoming reality, but this one seems like a winner: canned air from cities like New York, Paris, Berlin, and Singapore. Photographer Kirill Rudenko makes them, and they’re available in his Etsy shop for people who are nostalgic for their city’s smells, or who […]
