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Videos
Awful Product Idea of the Day: Live Turtle Key Rings
Beijing's street vendors are offering goldfish and small turtles sealed inside plastic trinkets for your amusement.
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The Big Fix
Strange Urban Animal Infestations, a History
Miami and house-eating snails, Seattle against a band of coyotes, and more stories of urban outbreaks.
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Videos
Watch What Happens When East London Potholes Become Mini-Gardens
An aesthetically pleasing if not quite street legal approach to fixing East London's potholes.
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Photos
Say Goodbye to One of the Most Popular Graffiti Spots Near Paris
One of France's most famous tagging destinations, an old warehouse in Pantin, is scheduled to become just another mixed-use development.
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Photos
What Cornell's Roosevelt Island Campus Might Look Like
Cornell has chosen six firms to submit designs for its new campus. Here's a look at university projects they've worked on in the past.
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Mass Evictions in Baku as Eurovision Nears
Relocating citizens to make way for a big redevelopment push isn't unusual. What's striking in this case is the Azerbaijan government's apparent ruthlessness.
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Urban Wonk
Can Zoning Save a Downtown?
Nashville tries to reboot its neglected areas with a new form-based zoning code.
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Postcard
Postcard From Tashkent
Officials terrified residents of one neighborhood when they staged a mock terrorist attack, and other news.
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Maps
Elephants and Whales on the London Tube
Artists connect the dots to reveal animal shapes on the city's subway map.
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Does Light Rail Really Alleviate Highway Congestion?
At the very least, it seems to slow the rise of highway traffic, according to a new report.
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