John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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Is This Device To Blind Traffic Cameras Really Legal?
The noPhoto is a license-plate frame that promises to get you out of traffic tickets.
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Greening Cities Through the Power of Public Urination
A team of San Francisco inventors view drunks and the homeless as reservoirs of golden fertilizer.
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Grand Central Could Get a Giant, Elevating Observation Hoop
Architects honor New York's revered train station with a proposal that might make you want to dunk.
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A Bicycle That Seats You Plus Two Children (If You're Okay With That)
This Japanese commuting bike mounts kids on the front and back ends of a bicycle, almost like biological bumpers.
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Photos
Colossal Arachnids Menace the Space Needle
Artist Marlin Peterson improved the Seattle Center with frighteningly realistic (and large) daddy longlegs.
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Toilet Tuesday
A Japanese Luxury 'Hotel' Inside a Public Bathroom
The eternal dream of humankind – to enjoy room service while on the toilet – has finally come to fruition.
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Videos
Inside the Portland International Airport's Jellyfish Playpen
Concourse E has been invaded by a rainbow-colored swarm of gently swaying jellies.
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Maps
An Entire Year of New York City's Noise Complaints
More than 270,000 noise complaints sketch a city that roars in the day and talks ferociously in its sleep.
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Photos
A Paris Park Morphs Into a Forest of Screaming Gargoyles
Now these are some trees with personality.
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Vienna's Naked Subway Woman Adds To Rich History of Nude Commuting
It's almost as if journalists have never heard about this happening.
