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Photos
Bringing the 'Ghosts' of Google Street View To Life
An artist recreates the scenes captured by Google's cameras.
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The Big Fix
Fortress America: How the U.S. Designs its Embassies
The challenge of architecture that epitomizes American values while offering total security.
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Rankings
The World's Leading Cities for Fashion
The places with a disproportionate impact on what gets made, admired, and sold.
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The Big Fix
Berlin's Invisible Gentrifiers
The city's properties are being sucked up by out-of-towners who visit only a few weeks a year, turning neighborhoods into ghost towns.
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Maps
Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer?
Self-described "map geek" Eric Fischer uses urban data to make some of the web's most intriguing spatial images.
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Convention Towns, Zoning Overhauls, and Physics Experiments: The Best #CityReads of the Week
Our weekly look back at the stories you may have missed.
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Product of the Day: Canned City Air
Get a whiff of a place you miss.
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Videos
Watch the Icons of Google Maps Come to Life in the Real World
What happens when you insert elements from the digital realm into our physical surroundings?
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What Makes a Public Space Good for Democracy?
The best world capitals to raise a democratic ruckus.
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Photos
The Nazi Olympics, Revisited
A new exhibit at Pittsburgh’s Holocaust Center explores the most infamous of Games.
