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Guerilla monster art makes every street into Sesame Street
Aiden Glynn is using fake teeth and eyeballs to make Toronto a little more magical.
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How cities invent parking quotas, in 71 animated seconds
This short cartoon shows how cities make up parking requirements from junk science.
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Deadly 1,000-year floods strike Colorado
Flooding centered in Boulder, Colo., is so extreme that the National Weather Service called it "biblical." And it's just the latest climate-related disaster to strike the region.
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Underground parking: The black market, apps, and future of car storage
In cities across the U.S., drivers are renting, borrowing, and tracking parking spots.
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New Orleans has a radical new plan for managing floods
Instead of trying to pump out all floodwater, officials want to corral it into areas that serve as parks during drier times. Rain gardens, bioswales, and canals will help too.
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Can drastic new anti-pollution rules help clean up Beijing’s air?
The city is rolling out a series of regulations to cut emissions over the next five years.
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Americans are driving less in nearly every state
Over the past eight years, the number of vehicle miles traveled has steadily decreased, a trend dominated by millennials' much lower driving rates.
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New York subway delayed by kittens
The B and Q lines in Brooklyn were delayed due to cute overload.
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Girl steals bike back from bike thief
She contacted the thief posing as an interested buyer, took the bike for a test ride -- and just kept riding.
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If it’s too smoggy for your tourist photos, Hong Kong has a fake blue-sky backdrop
Because you didn't pay good money to go to Hong Kong and have your vacation Instagrams ruined by light-impervious smog.
