urban planning
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Why rising rents mean rising temperaturesWe need our cities to be affordable in order to fight climate change.
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The best show on TV right now is about living carless in the suburbs
Donald Glover's new FX show is a perceptive picture of America's growing problem of poverty and sprawl.
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Why Uber won’t fuel more sprawl
A prominent economist says that the rise of Uber and self-driving cars will spur a new exodus to the suburbs. Here's why he's wrong.
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The key to fighting climate change and mortality? Walkable citiesWatch how to make your city better for humans — not cars -- to get around.
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Trees lining California streets are worth an extra $1 billion a year
A new study calculates the value of the trees that line the state’s roads.
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How tracking poop could help build better communities
The U.S. Census is a slow, constipated process -- could public officials benefit from a quicker approach to counting heads?
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Nashville is pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about its giant accidental lake
Even Google Maps recognizes the country music capital's unnatural body of water.
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Into the woods: Seattle plants a public food forest
Urban orchards are growing in popularity all over the country, but Seattle is taking it further with this public fruit experiment.
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The architecture of hedonism: Putting the pleasure into green living
Bjarke Ingels.This interview originally appeared in The Dirt. Bjarke Ingels is founding partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Ingels, rated as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company, is also a visiting professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Q. You’ve been calling for a new approach, “hedonistic sustainability,” […]
