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The larger the city, the more it pollutes, right?
NASA tries to answer the question.
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By 2050, flooding could cost the world’s coastal cities over $60 billion a year
That’s only if cities make significant investments to mitigate risk. If we do nothing, flooding costs could soar to $1 trillion.
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The next great farming frontier? Look up
A new green revolution is underway -- on urban rooftops.
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Beautifully imagined maps show fictional cities and their transit systems
The imaginary metropolises on Ian Silva's imaginary islands have better public transit systems than most real cities.
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Kochs must move their massive piles of tar-sands waste, Detroit mayor says
Petcoke has been piling up on Detroit's riverfront near a refinery processing tar-sands oil from Canada, but the city has finally had enough.
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Greatest Craiglist Missed Connections ad in history makes the train seem so much more romantic
It may be one of the loveliest pieces of public transit-related short fiction ever written.
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A tiny dead shark rides the New York subway
Not a Shark Week promotion. Not a subway publicity stunt. Just a small deceased fish drinking a Red Bull and riding the train.
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Bikes in Boston’s subway are guarded by a cardboard cop
And he's cut bike theft by 67 percent.
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Maps of never-realized urban planning projects show the cities that could have been
L.A. thought about rapid transit. New York could have had an expressway through the city. These maps show alternate-universe versions of infrastructure that never happened.
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Richard M. Daley wants to make your city more sustainable
The former Chicago mayor is launching a company to help cities pursue money-saving infrastructure investments.
