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Asia: The World Leader in Super-Tall Statues
There are big statues of gods and heroes almost everywhere, but Asia dominates.
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Postcard
Two Years After an Earthquake, a Stand-Off Over a Shanty Town
A group of Tibetan earthquake victims in China say they're being threaten with removal to make way for an eco-tourism center.
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Oslo Takes its Streets Back from Terror, with a Song
More than 40,000 people showed up in the rain in a show of defiance against admitted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
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Nashville's New, Hypergreen Park
A 6.5-acre, nature-inspired space opens as part of the city's riverfront revitalization plan.
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Democracy in America
Yes, There's an 'Urban Planning for Dummies' Book
And its author makes the case for why our cities need more dummies getting involved.
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Videos
A Mural About City-Building That Actually Doesn't Stink
This time-lapse video chronicles painted cranes as they "build" a city from the ground up, with real-life objects blending into two dimensions and vice versa.
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In Defense of the Electric Bicycle, from the Bottom of a Steep Hill in San Francisco
I don't care what you purists think, these e-bikes are a godsend to hilly cities everywhere.
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Real Estate Boom of the Day: Brooklyn Is Back
The borough is on track to hit $2 billion in property sales this year.
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Is Traffic Making Us Lonely?
Long before the invention of social media, a man named Donald Appleyard was investigating how automotive traffic isolates us from one another.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Michigan Town Terrorized by 'Monster' Graffiti
Also, a girl can't wear the Confederate flag to prom in Tennessee; the British can't even support their own Olympics; Yertle the Turtle is banned in Canada.
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