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Unusual Urban Pastime of the Day: Subway Speed Riding
An international duo tries to ride the New York subway from end to end faster than anyone else.
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Maybe What Your City Needs Is a Ridiculous Fuzzy-Suited Mascot
In the municipal mascot department, it seems that North America can't compete with Asia.
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Videos
Does City Life Have to Mean Life Without Stars?
A new film explores what we lose when light pollution cancels out the night sky.
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Photos
Probably Offensive Street Art of the Day: Fatties, Step to the Right
A direct, if rude, way to attack America's obesity epidemic.
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What Salamanders Can Teach Us About Urban Evolution
We have built a city up around them, but amphibians and mammals alike have persisted by genetically diversifying.
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Subway Platforms From Around the World
As iconic as anything above ground, these subway platforms leave riders with an added sense of the city they serve.
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You Can Live the Tiny House Dream in a Brooklyn Backyard
An artist offers up a cabin experience in the city as an experiment in bartering for space.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Park Slope Parents Decry 'Tempting' Ice Cream
Also, Tampa is going to ban water pistols (but not real guns) from the 2012 Republican National Convention, and more.
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The Kindness of Cities
Studies suggest city dwellers are meaner than their suburban counterparts. Here's what the researchers don't understand.
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An Ice Cream Truck for Architecture Dorks
The Coolhaus truck serves up scoops with a modernist twist.
