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Confronting Comfort: BMW Guggenheim Lab Opens

Brought to you by BMW Guggenheim Lab. The lab opens in Berlin today, calling on city residents to confront urban comfort and inspire change.

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Digital Boomtown: Online Learning Is on the Rise

A new report shows that the number of middle and high school students learning online has tripled over the past three years.

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The Difference Between Urban Brains And Rural Brains In A Study About Urban Versus Rural Brains, Suburbia Is Left Out

A new study that confirms our cultural stereotypes about city and country dwellers raises more questions than it answers.

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Your Carbon Footprint Isn't Small Just Because You Take the Subway

Think living in a city is better for the environment than country living? Think again.

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Busting Bike Myths

Finding the truth behind bike urban legends.

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I Just Made a New Road on Google Maps, You Can Too

Starting today you can edit Google Maps, and add pedestrian and bike routes.

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Image of the Day: Night Shadows

The artist Michael Neff uses chalk to trace the shadows cast by the artificially illuminated city, and photographs the fleeting results.

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Walkability is Now a Buzzword

Rockport shoes new campaign features two attractive 20-somethings walking the streets of New York, attracted no doubt by each others' comfy shoes.

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Urban Aquaculture

Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...

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On Skid Row: God

People living on Skid Row have often severed their earthly relationships. Union Rescue Mission's Orlando Ward and Skid Row preacher Pastor...

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On Skid Row: Drugs

In the shadow of Los Angeles's glimmering financial district skyscrapers, Skid Row is "like Vegas for junkies." Choc Nitty started selling...

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On Skid Row: Kids

Franklin Arburtha carries the mantle of disenfranchised youth on Skid Row. But the deck is stacked against anyone who's lived here-especially...

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On Skid Row: Introduction

Los Angeles's police chief called Skid Row "the worst social disaster in America." It's a frightening sight from a moving car. Sam Slovick...

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Public Domain

The Next Generation of American Public Spaces. An original GOOD Video presentation on the Highline..