Mar 05
City Cycling: Health Versus Hazard
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Are the fitness benefits of riding your bike worth the risk of an accident? Lesley Evans Ogden takes a tour of seven cities on two wheels to find out.
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Mar 04
Legendarily unaffordable Tokyo is no longer the priciest metropolis in the world—it has been supplanted by another, far more inaccessible city. Want to take a guess who it is? It’s not New York. It’s not San Francisco. The world’s most expensive city is…
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Mar 04
They’re being targeted as harbingers of evil as their buses chug through otherwise inaccessible, gentrified neighborhoods. Now San Francisco’s tech workers are fighting back with a networking event called the Tech Workers Against Displacement Happy Hour, that, in addition to sounding like a whole lot of fun, hopes to gather attendees who are "sick of being blamed for SF’s housing crisis."
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Mar 03
A new plan for U.S. transportation!
Posted in: Today's Chili
A new plan for U.S. transportation! California tries to fix its water crisis! An ugly building with good politics in Philly! Plus, Italy’s boyish new leader and a walking tour of "crushingly boring" Silicon Valley! It’s all in this week’s best Urban Reads.
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Mar 01
Driving in New York can be a pretty agonizing experience—but then, so can walking and biking. Still, in such a congested city, you’re going to need to be either extremely lucky or extremely okay with breaking the speed limit if you want to hit even just two green lights in a row. But 55 green lights? That takes an act of god. Or, in one Reddit user’s case, a late night and some very careful calculations.
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Feb 27
As a big urban walker, I like to head for the hills. So when I stumbled upon this list of the steepest streets in the U.S., I just had to see what they looked like, and I started planning a trip to hit all of the most insanely steep stretches of our American streets. The scariest thing? People live (and park!) on them.
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Feb 25
Apple’s got a vested interest in Arizona’s future—its newest factory will break ground there in 2015, bringing thousands of jobs to the state. And the company is now advocating for local policy. Today, Apple publicly took a stand against the state’s highly controversial proposed anti-gay legislation.
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Feb 25
Public toilets are notorious for unsavory behavior and even more unsavory smells. The PPlanter is both a public toilet and a planter, composting the pee it collects to nourish pots of bamboo. And it’s apparently odor-free.
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Feb 24
Changes in Red Hook, violence in Kiev, and new ideas for Paris from mayoral candidates.
Posted in: Today's Chili
Changes in Red Hook, violence in Kiev, and new ideas for Paris from mayoral candidates. Plus Bogotá bans cars for a week, California might divide into six states, and the surprising history of Hollywood. These are all the Urban Reads you need.
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Feb 24
When most of us hear the term "microhouse," we think of the chic, wedge-shaped homes that have colonized the world’s wealthiest cities. But in a number of U.S. cities, microhouses are being used to house a different demographic—the very poor.
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