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Can you build a house for less than a Macbook?
MIT challenges architects to design a house that costs $1,000. Here’s how one student came tantalizingly close.
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Dinner & Bikes Tour: The best and the worst
After a month in search of bike-friendly communities, Elly Blue returns to report the good news: The things are popping up everywhere.
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Try out these 50 hilarious no-handed bike moves
If you have ever thought to yourself "self, I wonder what are the 50 most hipsterish bike tricks," wonder no more. Not sure how I feel about "the Hitler" — […]
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Is this the perfect urban bike?
This bike, designed by custom bike maker Tony Pereira, took top prize in an Oregon Manifest competition to design the perfect urban utility cycle. Pereira's bike is intended as a transitional vehicle for people trying to make the switch from cars. It includes a stereo, a front-mounted locking "trunk," and an electric assist motor. (Plus, it has a cupholder, of sorts! That should appeal to the SUV crowd.)
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Kangaroo bikes and Bambi killers: Meet the cyclists of ‘Outdoorsia’
On the South Dakota fringe, Elly Blue discovers a mutant bike culture and a new way to bring home the, uh, bacon.
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Road hogs: Minneapolis cyclists don’t need to share
Last year, the City of Lakes stole the title of most bike friendly burg in America -- and rightly so. You have to ride it to believe it.
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Walk Score's new apartment finder lets you build your perfect commute
Sure, there's a tool for finding the apartment with, say, the most bars in walking range. But eventually you're going to need to go to work, and if your commute is miserable, even having a bar for every day of the month won't save you. (Though it'll help.) Luckily, the Walk Score guys have put together a new tool that lets you search for an apartment based on how long it'll take you to get there from work.
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Urban revival puts butts in the (bike) seats
How a community bicycle project is helping resuscitate downtown Topeka, Kansas, and unite a community at the same time.
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Phenomenal cosmic skyscrapers — itty bitty environmental savings
Urbanists such as Ed Glaeser argue that tall buildings will save our cities. But they won't save the earth.
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Metal-wheeled bike! Sure, why not?
It's Friday, so here's a pointlessly pretty bike. It has metal wheels, because apparently you can make working bike wheels out of nothing but sprung steel, so why wouldn't […]
