John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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Toilet Tuesday
What If Westerners Had Their Safe Toilets Taken Away?
They'd join the ranks of one in three women worldwide who face "shame, disease, harassment and even attack," according to WaterAid.
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Photos
Incredible Sculptures Made From Bike Parts
It's astonishing to see what somebody can conjure from the leavings on a fix-it shop's floor.
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Videos
Visualizing a City's Prodigious Carbon Emissions
This simulation shows one-ton blobs of carbon dioxide rising from the street in giant blue spheres.
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San Francisco's New Bike Parklet Is a Dismembered Citroën H Van
"It was just sitting there, gathering dust."
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Here's One Way to Waste Time at the Bus Stop
An Italian street artist has the perfect thing for when the bus is running late: Popping bubblewrap.
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Photos
Zaha Hadid Designs an Alien Mothership for Tokyo
The famed architect's vision for Tokyo's New National Stadium is gorgeous and a little intimidating.
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Videos
The Incredible Missile Battle Above Israel
The skies have been absolutely insane this week.
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Husbands Can No Longer Rape Wives in the Solomon Islands: This Week in Bans
Also, Portland's City Council rushes to remove agitators, and Uganda's biggest city decides to get rid of single-family houses.
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High-Fashion Bags Inspired by Third World Filth
Danielle van Lunteren's "Infected" bags spread pestilence into the ultra-clean cities of the Netherlands.
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Videos
This Guy Was Doing Parkour Decades Before It Became Cool
Is this Jackie Chan's long-lost grandfather?
