John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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St. Louis Loses a Historic Bridge, Gains Awesome Demolition Footage
Part of the nation's first interstate highway project is no more, having been spectacularly dropped into the Missouri River on Tuesday.
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Videos
This Tiny Robot Makes Street Signs Much Prettier
An urban hacker from Tokyo thinks street poles should look like candy canes, and he's built the 'bot to do that.
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This Time-Altering Helmet Slows Down the Pace of City Life
It might not give you Matrix-style bullet-dodging skills, but this German invention could cause you to walk into an open manhole.
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Toilet Tuesday
A Startling Number of Americans Use Social Media in the Toilet
Also in this Toilet Tuesday: researchers discover that men experience more "stress" than women when using public bathrooms.
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Videos
Would You Ride a Bike That Sounded Like a Trotting Horse?
It's a Monty Python gag, of course.
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Videos
Nation's Capital Ushers in the Holidays with an Exploding Christmas Tree
Next up: a rocket-propelled menorah?
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The Weird Weather Phenomena Created by Urban Bike Paths
Why do the bike paths of Virginia glow like rainbows pouring from the earth?
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Who Destroyed This Iconic African-American Mural in Philadelphia?
The mural celebrating printmaker Dox Thrash is now a big, ugly square of paint.
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Brussels Tests Out Broken-Window Theory by Targeting Public Jerks
Also in This Week in Bans: a lonesome howl is heard as Germany outlaws bestiality, Cambridge University orders its students to stop throwing flour at each other.
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Forecasting Flu Outbreaks on a City-By-City Basis
Researchers looking into New York City's flu rates think they may be able to predict local pandemics seven weeks before they happen.
