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Google Crisis Map Aerial images of destruction on a stunning scale.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: The Great Sidewalk Chalk Drawing Menace
Also, Mumbai silences "laughing yoga" practitioners and Seattle prohibits a cancer survivor from swimming topless.
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Freeway Removal Hits a Roadblock in the Bronx
Reports of the death of the Sheridan Expressway have been greatly exaggerated.
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Charts
Visualization of the Day: The Population Growth of 590 Cities
This chart might break your brain.
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Photos
A Peep at 10 of the World's Most Popular Red Light Districts
Where urban morals, margins, and mainstream converge — under cover of a neon glow.
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Charts
How Cities Can Help Fight Obesity
Some ideas for using existing infrastructure to get people outside and eating well.
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Reno Just Wants to Be Normal
The city has been a haven for gold rushers, divorce-seekers and gamblers. Now it's making a bid for the pleasant city market.
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The Hotel as Neighborhood
What if a resort incorporated local coffee shops, restaurants, and stores into its very essence? Three architects in Vienna give it a go.
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America's Gayest Neighborhoods
Where are the largest concentrations of gay couples?
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Urban Wonk
How the Recession Made Me a Gentrifier in My Home Town
Downwardly mobile Millennials—especially the ones who are natives of increasingly expensive cities—are rewriting the rules of gentrification.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Santa Monica Outlaws Christmas Displays
Also banned recently: Porch sofas in Durham, North Carolina; public profanity near Boston; a British man who drinks mouthwash.
