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Sunday Fun: Spot the Real Architectural Icon Amidst the Fakes
Ersatz versions of architectural icons like the Eiffel Tower, the London Bridge, or the Statue of Liberty are popping up around the world. Are you ready to test your skills in parsing the real from the fake?
Here's What Happens When You Quit CityLab for a Month
There are few sites as essential for urbanists as CityLab. Here's what happened when I tried to be a little more inessential.
El Niño Met With the Polar Vortex in Secret Before Winter 2016
2015 was supposed to be the El Niño year.
Researchers Discover New Level of Vibrant: Hella Vibrant
There's more to vibrant than access to fresh-made baguettes and signage with tastefully chosen typefaces.
Top Five Newspaper Paywalls
The paywalls most likely to make you open a new browser or check the blogs—anything other than paying journalists.
5 Things You Didn't Know About Mar-A-Lago
Get to know the "Winter White House."
Friday Funny: The Future of Mobility Is Now
A new ad by Swedish public transit agency Västtrafik pulls quite a bait and switch.
Friday Funny: Only the Onion Would Offer These 'Tips for Urban Biking'
The satirical site The Onion produces a set of totally invented, not-to-be-rusted safety tips for riding a bike in cities. We're not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Sesame Street vs. Donald Trump
Sesame Street, which would lose federal support if some of the cuts proposed by the Trump Administration's draft budget go into effect, has been lampooning Donald Trump since long before he became president.
SXSW Attendees Troubled by Austin's Lack of Uber
What happens when SXSW stops being polite, and starts getting real?
Friday Fun: The Top 50 Breweries in America
The Brewers Association's annual list of top 50 craft brewing companies is sure to inspire debate this St. Patrick's Day, and every other day ending in y.
Friday Funny: A Bus Stop With Funk in Melbourne
"All aboard to funkytown," writes Chloe Booker, transporting readers to a time and a place where the trains had soul and the bells had bottoms.
Friday Eye Candy: The Childhood Maps of 8 Professional Mapmakers
Choosing cartography as a career is a natural result of a lifelong love of maps. National Geographic gathers the proof.
Friday Eye Candy: A Minecraft Duplicate of Chicago
An exemplary display of Minecraft prowess.
Zoning: A Public Service Announcement
A public service announcement on behalf of renters priced out of the housing market: "Talk to your friends about zoning."
Sunday Fun: Behind Washington State's Monopoly on Sad Place Names
Yikes, Washington. What's the deal with all those sad place names?
Urban Cycling Revolution Under Threat by 'Shights' Epidemic (Satire)
Researchers have detected a disease threatening cycling infrastructure investment. Although city administrators continue to invest in living streets, until cyclists becomes self-aware, the automobile will continue to dominate cities.
Friday Eye Candy: A Mashup of New York and Paris of the 1920s
Paris and New York, seamlessly photoshopped together—that's a cause we can get behind.
Friday Fun: Bikes and Beer Take to the Water
Hold my beer while I pedal this boat around Lake St. Clair.
Friday Funny: A Survey to Rate the Greatness of Driveways
Yeah, this is a weird one.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
