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Canada’s Strangest Straphanger
…He’s the biggest advocate for expanding a subway line to the far-flung neighborhood of Scarborough. Along with Ford’s native Etobicoke and other parts of outer Toronto, Scarborough was once its own suburban municipality, and was only forced to amalgamate with North America’s fourth largest city in 1998. Today, its residents…
DailyRise and Shine: Chicago’s Private Public-Private Partnerships
Your morning link roundup from The Shared City, featuring fancy food trucks, Bay Area Bike Share’s self-defeatism, Manhattan’s new space for conspiracies and more.
DailyDaniel Zarrilli, New York’s Director of Resiliency, on Future-Proofing the City
The Bloomberg administration has put forth hundreds of ideas for helping New York City deal with climate change and natural disasters. We spoke with the city’s director of sustainability about a few.
FeaturesThe Black Car Company That People Love to Hate
…to see his service for “being baller” spread to every major city. But in each new locale it hopes to conquer, Uber runs into the interests of an entrenched taxi industry and regulators who don’t know where the app-based company fits into their rulebooks. There’s no better place to understand…
FeaturesIstanbul’s Furious Bid to Become the Next Dubai
Historically, building has been a byproduct of economic activity, not its driver. But in emerging cities throughout the developing world, construction is quickly becoming the preferred path to lightning-fast growth. This is certainly the case in Istanbul, a place one commentator recently declared a “constructocracy.” A top-down, government-led building binge…
FeaturesWhy Jean Quan Failed Oakland’s Grass Roots
…Yet whatever gentrification means for Oakland, it has not led to increased safety. This remains a city where police times are so slow, groups of locals have taken it upon themselves to hold classes about how to administer first aid to gunshot victims. Old divisions, meanwhile, still exist: Residents of…
DailyHow Phnom Penh Created a Super-Efficient, Totally Drinkable Water Supply
Two decades ago this city barely had running taps. Today its system rivals New York’s.
DailyThe Urban-Rural Water Wars of Nevada
Las Vegas is running out of water, which is why boosters in the city want to build a pipeline built to eastern Nevada. But last week a judge ruled against the project, to the delight of local environmental groups.
DailyIndia’s New “Green Cities” Are Devoid of All Street Life
Solar panels abound, but there’s no mass transit and pedestrians are non-existent.
DailyRoundup: Four More Urbanist Books to Read for the Holidays
Plenty of worthy books about urbanism came out in 2013, many of which we never got around to reviewing.
FeaturesDrugs and the City
…much of an economic impact dispensaries could make. Oakland, for instance, earned $1.4 million in taxes last year from only four dispensaries. Writer Zak Stone travels from massive growing operations in suburban shopping centers to the Venice Beach Boardwalk to find out how, and to what extent, medical marijuana will…
DailyNew Law Will Lift New York’s Waterfront Structures Up In the Air
A flood-proofing measure, the zoning tweak will replace stoops and storefronts with street-level parking and storage.
DailyThe Promises and Pitfalls of Desalination
Some have turned to desalination as a way to deal with water shortages, but are the high costs and environmental threats worth it?
FeaturesThe Next Generation of Infrastructure
…help prepare the area for intense climatic shifts that will come over the next century. Indeed, all over the country planners have come to realize that they need to account for climate change as they build or upgrade urban infrastructure. And for the first time, engineers have started to look…
DailyCities, Put Your Climate Cards on the Table
The 2014 City Climate Leadership Awards, which launched this week, will recognize policies, projects or initiatives that best address climate change impacts.
FeaturesIt’s an Automatic
*The driverless, or more accurately, self-driving car is widely predicted to revolutionize mobility by knocking humans out of the driver’s seat as soon as 2030. By acting as a sort of 21st-century car pooling mechanism, it has the potential to help marginalized populations get around and take large numbers of…
DailyCan de Blasio Reverse Bloomberg’s Development Decline?
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will have a tough time reversing a decades-long decline in housing production.
DailyA Greek Orthodox Church Wants to Build an Internet Cafe on Kansas City’s Dividing Line
The space is meant to spread connectivity east of Troost Avenue.
FeaturesThe End of the Port Authority
**If you live anywhere on the East Coast or buy any mass-produced objects that pass through there, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a part of your life — and more pointedly, a largely invisible line item in your budget. A bi-state agency with $37 billion…