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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 […]
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Picking Ryan means picking a fight on transportation
Paul Ryan has tried to derail plans for high-speed train lines, and his budget proposal would take a hatchet to transportation and infrastructure spending.
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Paris is building a crazy-looking indoor banana farm
Man, Parisians are so grabby. They already have the Eiffel Tower, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Grey Poupon, and now they’re going to have locally grown bananas too? Parisians at the the Agricultural Urbanism Lab are hard at work (if you can call a life with six weeks of paid vacation work) on a miniature vertical […]
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New Agtivist: From backyard farmer to community visionary in Oakland
With a farm store and a 220-acre project in the works, City Girl Farms founder Abeni Ramsey is pushing the urban agriculture envelope in Oakland and beyond.
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The travails of a novice bike commuter
Want to ride to work but too scared to try? You’re not alone. Here is one first-timer’s harrowing tale, along with a few words of wisdom for those new to the biking tribe.
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This miniature city is made of 100,000 staples
This is significantly more creative than we've ever gotten with office supplies.
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Kobe Bryant and LeBron James use public transit at the Olympics
If the American men's Olympic basketball team can use public transportation, so can everybody else.
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São Paulo has been invaded by giant brains
Apparently São Paulo, Brazil still has public phone booths — or at least it did. Now, thanks to the Call Parade public art project, it has giant brains, disco balls, can-can dancers, and miniature cities. One hundred artists have transformed 100 phone booths to add some whimsy to the city, and/or attract zombies.
