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Addictive Geography Game of the Day: A Place-Guessing Challenge for Specific Cities, Parks, and More
Aguilardo/Wikimedia Commons Plus thematic challenges!
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Photos
From the Top of the Shard, London Looks Like a 'Giant Urban Circuit Board'
Urban explorers recently climbed the tallest building in the European Union. Here's what they saw.
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The Greenest Building May Actually Be a Neighborhood
A UCLA class is trying to apply a strict building standard to an entire community.
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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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Charts
The Uneven Future of Urbanization
The United Nations projects a huge global urban population boom by 2050, but in some places more than others.
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The Fight to Save Los Angeles's Little Tokyo
The struggle to preserve the neighborhood's unique character in the face of development.
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RoboCop Statue 'Definitely' Coming to Detroit
Everyone's favorite badge-toting manmachine will absolutely be memorialized in bronze, somewhere in the city.
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The Most Desolate City on Earth: Gunkanjima, aka 'Battleship Island'
This abandoned coal mine off of Nagasaki would be a wicked place to have a paintball match.
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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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Next Great Idea
The Enduring Effect of Neighborhoods
Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson on his new book, Great American City.
