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Videos
A Traffic Light That Makes Road Rage Excusable
The green is only a second long.
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Photos
A City Where Everything Is a 15 Minute Walk Away
China's proposed car-free city for 80,000 is intended to become a prototype.
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Charts
One Surprising Factor Slowing the Economic Recovery
We need more mortgage lenders. 75 percent of the biggest home lenders in 2006 no longer exist.
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Fear of a Tiny Apartment
By endorsing smaller and smaller living spaces, are we creating a world in which only the very wealthy can live in anything more than sardine-can habitats?
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Photos
If Grannies Did Graffiti, It Might Look Like This Yarn Tagging
A shadowy Madrid artist is methodically wrapping European cities in chaotic fabric webs.
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Were Big Banks Guilty of Racial Discrimination in the Housing Crisis?
A lawsuit just filed in New York on behalf of black borrowers in Detroit connects for the first time the housing collapse with civil rights law.
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Charts
America's Truly Densest Metros
New Census data offers insight on a better way to measure the density of U.S. cities.
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Charts
Are Boomers the Reason Urban Rents Are Rising?
A new chart examines how the growing pressure on urban real estate is reshaping the marketplace
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Urban Wonk
Tips for Selling the 'Urban' Experience to Suburbanites
Often, bringing sustainable development to the suburbs is all about helping communities get over their fear.
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Postcard
The Great Wall of China's Great Wall of People
It's high season for tourists in the world's most populous country.
