Topic: design
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Wild Design of the Day: A Skyscraper Prison to Rehabilitate Jersey City's Convicts
Two University of Pennsylvania students designed this futuristic, arching prison meant to reduce recidivism rates in New Jersey.
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What Mumbai and Beijing Can Learn From New York
Two recent exhibits highlight American planning's strengths alongside its great weaknesses.
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The $2,500 Occupy Wall Street Folding Chair
Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz hopes that the 1 percent will enjoy this unusual furniture.
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Gardens on Top of City Buses: This Would Never Work
Attention, media: Please stop writing about bus-roof gardens as if they could actually exist in real life.
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Sprinkles Cupcakes Explains Its 24-Hour 'Cupcake ATM'
The company says it plans to launch round-the-clock, cupcake-dispensing automatons in not just Beverly Hills, but every city it's located in.
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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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Photos
Using Kaleidoscopic Mirrors to Fight India's Littering Problem
The Cleanoscope, a public trashcan in Mumbai that looks like a kaleidoscope, is meant to make throwing away trash fun.
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Solar-Powered Concept Car Fuses 'Batman' With 'Tron'
A London designer gives the staid solar car a badass, stealth-bomberlike makeover.
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Charts
Where Does Crime Go After Public Housing Projects Are Demolished?
Researchers track the diffusion of crime over time to see what happens when dysfunctional housing projects are at last replaced
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Democracy in America
What Citizens Add to Planning
The people who live in a place often have fresh ideas about how to make it better
