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We are weirdly addicted to this neighborhood-identification game
Code for America created a neato game to help you learn about all the different neighborhoods where you live. And where you don't live.
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Google Maps-inspired film portrays cities as oil-addicted monsters
Director Patrick Jean combined map data and animation for this short film, which shows an American city called Motorville going in search of the oil that gives it life.
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Soon, you’ll be able to use New York’s pay phones to call the year 1993
A new use for the 5,000 useless pay phones in NYC: You can use them to hear recorded messages about what life was like in NYC when people actually used them.
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Can San Jose’s green vision live up to its hype?
The California city set a 2022 deadline for all kinds of lofty green innovations. But how about building some more bike lanes?
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Beyond widgets: Envisioning a real transportation revolution
A recent report showed how much carbon can be cut through changes in vehicles. But changes in transportation systems go well beyond vehicles.
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Let’s bring back New York City’s goat beauty pageants
In the 1930s, the goats competing for "Mr. Manhattan" were mostly "mascots and talismans," but surely the vogue for urban farming means we could start this back up again.
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The queen rides the Tube to celebrate 150 years of subway transit in London
She's a sweet old lady. It's a grand old public transit system. And check out these useful badges they have for pregnant ladies!
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New York is getting rid of rats by sterilizing them
There are too many rats. So they're going to sterilize them. Seems like a plan.
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Fastest-growing metro areas in U.S. are sprawling and water-challenged
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and L.A. added the most residents from 2011 to 2012, according to new Census data.
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The least sustainable city: Phoenix as a harbinger for our hot future
For a taste of the brutal new climate to come, look to where the climate is already harsh, and growing more so -- the aptly named Valley of the Sun.
