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Crowdsourcing a City's Quiet Corners
A new app called Stereopublic is your guide to urban silence.
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Videos
Wildly Futuristic Stop Sign of the Day: A Laser-Powered Water Curtain in Sydney
The most ingenious way to stop too-tall trucks from colliding into bridges.
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This Week in Bans
No More Alcohol for Egypt's Suburbs
Also, a Sydney mall muzzles screaming children and Winston Churchill gets the axe from downtown Nottingham.
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This Week in Bans
Why Is the U.S. Capitol Still Burning Coal?
Also, a London neighbor fights against public gobbing and Sydney's wealthy whine about public-park weddings.
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Videos
Parts of Australia Get Swamped In Up to 9 Feet of Nasty Ocean Foam
First it was the extreme heat, now it's horrible drifts of smothering sea lather.
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Maps
NASA's Alarming Map of the Worst Australian Heat Wave on Record
The 114-degree heat in Sydney recently is nothing compared to 121-degrees recorded in Moomba.
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Maps
What Produces More Light Pollution in Australia: Cities or Wildfires?
Parts of the outback are lit up with so much flame they look like huge metropolises at night.
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Photos
This Atlas of 20th Century Architecture Weighs As Much As a Spare Tire
150 specialists, 750 buildings, 5,500 photographs, 100 years. Plus a crucial carrying case with a handle.
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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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Rankings
Confirmed Stereotype of the Day: Brazilians Love to Dance
The World Cities Culture Report came out today, and most of what you thought is true.
