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Where New York's Old Telephone Booths Go to Die
Dave Bledsoe A photographer stumbles on a payphone 'graveyard' in West Harlem.
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App of the Day: A Global Map of Old Signs
Check out the unusual typography all around you.
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Maps
Check Out This Food Atlas Created by 'Guerrilla Cartographers'
The book looks at everything from farmers' markets to where CSA produce comes from.
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Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks?
What if blocks could be extracted, stripped of all but their essential form, and lined up for inspection? Would we know a place by the sum of its parts?
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Charts
The Geography of Dog Ownership
And what that tells us about international development.
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Postcard
Watching People Watch the Eclipse
A rare total eclipse momentarily darkens skies over Australia.
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Videos
This Guy Was Doing Parkour Decades Before It Became Cool
Is this Jackie Chan's long-lost grandfather?
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better
The governments of virtually all large Latin American cities now use social media to engage with citizens, and smaller cities are quickly following suit.
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Videos
Tips for Creating Public Spaces People Actually Want to Use
A city's residents understand how to make exciting streets, squares and parks. Here's how to engage them in the process.
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Videos
Dance of the Day: In the Streets
You can dance if you want to; you can leave your friends behind.
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Postcard
Trudging Through 5 Feet of Water? Just a Day in the Life of a Venetian
Flooding has filled the city's romantic streets and squares with water.
