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Ugly by law: Check out how parking requirements shape our cities
Here's a photo essay on how off-street parking minimums shape our neighborhoods and architecture.
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Seattle adopts plan for going carbon neutral — but will pot growers get in the way?
The city aims to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. But energy-sucking indoor marijuana operations could throw the effort off course.
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NYC’s official website explains why NYC’s official compost plan can’t possibly work
It appears that Mayor Bloomberg was against composting before he was for it.
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Here’s what it’s like to ride on a subway with the doors open
What's worse -- a transit system that shuts down all the time because of malfunctions, or one that just powers through?
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Map of place name origins proves that we all secretly live in a fantasy novel
"Going to Jersey" sounds pretty mundane. But an epic trek to Spear Island City? COUNT US IN.
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Facing climate reality, cities look for ways to adapt
As stronger storms brew and sea levels rise, city leaders figure they’d better prepare for the worst.
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This is where pay phones go when they die
A Manhattan photographer has solved the mystery of where all the defunct pay phones went.
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Hummingbird tree-sit could stop San Fran developers where occupiers failed
Could a federal law protecting wildlife monkeywrench San Francisco's housing boom?
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Stephen Colbert knows that New York City’s bikeshare is a scourge
Colbert gets in on the bicycle hating. And OMG just watch.
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These beautiful photos make New York’s subway expansion look like a fairytale cave
New York is building its first new subway line since 1932, and if these photos are to be believed, it will be a magical cave of wonders.
