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America's Reviving Its Highway System for Cyclists

The United States has added new routes to its national bike system for the first time in 30 years.

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Climate Change Will Ruin Your WiFi Connection (And Much More Important Things)

A new UK government report warns that your wireless internet connection is at risk from global warming. If only that was the only problem.

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Are RV Parks Our Best Electric Car Charging Network?

RV parks, as it turns out, already have EV-ready, high-output electrical connections. Electric car enthusiasts rejoice?

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See This Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Days Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Short Days

Check out these amazing photos of a totally devastated stretch of Japanese highway that was rebuilt in three short days.

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Beautiful Photographs of Infrastructure: The Underpinnings That Make Civilization Civilized

A new photo essay at Pictory reveals the beauty—and necessity—of infrastructure.

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Best of the Blogs: Mammoth's Backyard Farm Service

Grow-your-own is great, but not all of us have the time. What if we re-purposed the lawn service industry to tend a distributed backyard farm network?

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GOOD Design Daily: Buy a Print, Support the Film Urbanized

Support Gary Hustwit's newest film about the design of cities by purchasing one of these beautiful prints by the U.K.-based firm Build.

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Building Bike Paths Is Great for the Economy

Despite House Speaker John Boehner's protestations, building bike paths creates twice as many jobs as fixing old roads.

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Fixing Urban Biking’s White Bias

Portland, Oregon, is working to increase the percentage of trips taken by bike from 7 percent to 25 percent by 2030.

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Metropolis II: Chris Burden's Elaborate "Portrait of L.A." (with Hot Wheels)

Metropolis II, is an elaborate interconnected system of tracks for some 1,200 Hot Wheels cars. The noise is impressive.

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Jersey Barriers to Get an Artist's Makeover in NYC

It's a smart move to transform the constant construction sites inherent in infrastructure upgrades into a canvas for local expression.

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Should We Retrofit Our Country Roads for Slow Touring?

America has thousands of miles of single-lane country roads that have fallen into desuetude. Many of them are part of the old numbered highway...