Satire

More scathing satire from The Onion, which continues a long history of dissecting the priorities of society as reflected in the built environment and the public realm.

December 7, 2018 - The Onion

A totally fake news story, intended to satirize, not provide any factual information, makes fun of how much New York City's political leadership gave to Amazon to make sure HQ2 would call the Big Apple home.

November 16, 2018 - The Onion

You know housing politics has gone mainstream when a satirical literary journal pokes fun at your acronyms.

October 26, 2018 - McSweeney's

The Reductress published a satirical post in which students discover their teacher takes three buses to get to work and decide to reward her with a better commute...made possible by better bus service.

September 28, 2018 - Reductress

The Fake News website The Onion reports a complete fabrication about Elon Musk and Tesla.

August 31, 2018 - The Onion

A satirical post for McSweeney's about the typical approach to the country's growing number of homeless brought to mind a famous song by Meat Loaf.

May 11, 2018 - McSweeney's

The folks over at City Observatory brew up a "Cappuccino Congestion Index" to show that anything can be shown to cost Americans vast sums of money.

April 20, 2018 - City Observatory

It's a sad day. Portlandia will no longer skewer the idiosyncrasies of enlightened urban lifestyles.

March 23, 2018 - The Oregonian

The Onion burns Elon Musk in a totally fake news story (really) about a bad day for the billionaire.

March 16, 2018 - The Onion

In this fake, satirical article, The Onion imagines that the MTA has finally had enough complaints about service failures and overcrowding on the New York subway. Vulgarities ensue.

February 16, 2018 - The Onion

The Onion is back at it again, this time satirizing society's interest in self-driving cars with a new concept: the carless driver.

February 2, 2018 - The Onion

The Onion is probably trolling the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration more than bike riders with this one.

November 17, 2017 - The Onion

The Onion is satire, so we'll never know if Jeff Bezos felt sorry for any of the cities wasting time and money on a pitch to win Amazon's second headquarters.

October 27, 2017 - The Onion

A new voice in the wilderness of YouTube: the War on Cars.

August 11, 2017 - CityLab

This kind of satire burns.

July 28, 2017 - Clickhole

Satirical news site The Onion lambastes (in familiar fashion) the gig economy—i.e., the euphemism applied to the side jobs and revenue sources offered by transportation network companies like Uber and short-term rental companies like Airbnb.

June 30, 2017 - The Onion

A totally fake news story from the fake news site The Onion reports the fake news that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is leading an effort to demolish Donald Trump's boyhood home.

June 2, 2017 - The Onion

The satirical website takes on the darling of community and economic development: the local craft brew industry.

May 5, 2017 - The Onion

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.

March 24, 2017 - The Onion

Yeah, this is a weird one.

January 13, 2017 - Clickhole