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Reuters The country's almost laboratory-like conditions are a perfect place to measure the effect of human urban development on temperature.
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Beijing Gets Aggressive on Cutting Smog, But It May Not Matter
The municipal government can only do so much without support at the national level.
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Flooding in Jakarta: A City Swamped by Its Own Success
Clogged canals and aging infrastructure aren’t the only factors intensifying Jakarta’s perennial flood crises.
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Inbox
A Reader Asks: Are Some Cities Doomed Never to Catch Up?
We get a lot of email. This week, Richard Florida answers one reader's pressing question.
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Urban Wonk
Brooklyn's Affordability Crisis Is No Accident
Rents are skyrocketing in the borough thanks to inflexible zoning rules.
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UNICEF Wants Us to Talk About Urban Inequality
An online forum invites insight from the people who work on the ground in the world’s biggest and most dysfunctional cities.
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Does Human Capital Tend to Cluster in Center Cities or the Suburbs?
According to new research, where college-educated folks live has a lot to do with population size.
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Videos
A Flash Mob Performs 'Here Comes the Sun' in a Spanish Unemployment Office
Equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming, we think.
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The Big Fix
Is There Less Drunk Driving in the South, Or Just Less Data?
We've got a couple of theories.
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Overdue Convenience of the Day: City Hall as Food Truck
In Boston, that pesky paperwork you're supposed to fill out comes to you.
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Urban Wonk
What Buenos Aires Can Teach Us About Walkability
And other lessons in urbanism from the South American capital.
