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Los Angeles Renaissance And The Rise Of Street Vending
L.A. is the only one of America’s 10 largest cities where street vending is illegal. But that could…
Where American City-Dwellers Lack Access To Running Water
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has released a report exploring the geography of insecure water access in the United…
When Can A Senior Citizen File A Slip And Fall Injury Claim?
Slip and fall injuries are some of the most common forms of personal injury. While young individuals can…
Surprising Facts About The Biggest Stars And Their Homes
Most celebrities do not lead their lives like us mortals. Most of them are literally bathing in money,…
How Live Streaming Is Breaking Boundaries
As technology continues to improve, so does the quality of live streaming, increasingly freed from limitations. Businesses are now being…
How Cities Can Combat The Dangerous Combination Of Extreme Heat And COVID
Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems like the record heat…
History Tells Us Trying To Stop Diseases Like COVID-19 At The Border Is A Failed Strategy
To explain why the coronavirus pandemic is much worse in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world,…
How Much Do U.S. Cities Spend On Policing?
How much of the general fund allocations of cities is spent on the police department? The trend of…
America’s Most Diverse, Mixed-Income Neighborhoods
]Which U.S. metro areas have the most people living in inclusive and diverse neighbourhoods? About seven million Americans…
7 Interesting Facts About Rubbish
Unfortunately, whatever we do as humans these days tends to produce some kind of waste material. Whether it’s…
George Floyd And Black Lives Matter Protests: A Brief Timeline
Here is a summary of events in the on-going Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests. “I can’t breathe.”…
The Benefits Of Living In A Small Town
The benefits of a large city or the advantages of a small town? This comparison is often debated…
George Floyd’s Death Reflects The Racist Roots Of American Policing
Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes has recently resurfaced…
The World’s Leading Financial Centres
Z/Yen Partners in collaboration with the China Development Institute (CDI) released the 2020 edition of the Global Financial…
The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2020
Three cities share the title of being the most expensive city in the world. This is according to…
Coronavirus: A Pandemic In The Age Of Inequality
Osmel Martinez Azcue felt unwell. Having recently returned home to Florida from China and experiencing flu-like symptoms, he…
Inversion Solutions — Tackling Utah’s Pollution Problem
Inversion season is over, but expect another spell by November. Even without inversion, Utah’s air pollution problem stands…
3 Monthly Expenses You Can Trim To Save Money In The City
Living in a city does not only come with convenience it also comes with a higher price tag.…
Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
Is Your Mattress Easy On The Environment? (Here’s 7 Ones That Are)
You spend about one-third of your life asleep. Many mattresses contain a slew of chemicals and substances that…
The World’s Top Cities Face Stiff Competition, Here’s Why
As concerns about geopolitics, demographics and climate change rise and technological advances redefine established city hierarchies, the attention…
Where US Commuters Spend The Most Time Stuck In Traffic
The commuters of Los Angeles experience the worst traffic conditions in the United States. This is based on…
6 Ways To Get Free Or Low-Cost Financial Advice
Have you ever found yourself wanting to know more about personal finance but unsure where to start? It…
The Top 10 U.S. Cities For Immigrants
Our world is becoming more and more diverse as people continue to move from their home countries to…
Best US Cities For Halloween 2019
Halloween is just around the corner. Are you prepared? Perhaps you are planning to make some last-minute shopping…
Does Your City Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Columbus Day commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas back on October 12, 1492. It is…
The Cities Where Libraries Are Thriving
These are the top 12 cities which recorded the most number of books loaned in public libraries for…
Violent Crime Is Like Infectious Disease – And We Know How To Stop It Spreading
Headlines scream about “epidemics” of shootings and stabbings – but what if we took that literally? From Chicago…
What Everybody Ought To Know About Rope Access Services
Rope access services are getting popular and there are many companies cropping up all over the place that…
It’s Official – Hong Kong Is The Most Expensive City In The World To Live In
The most expensive cities to live in around the world in 2019 have been revealed in the 15th Annual…
Will Smart Technology Solve The Urban Waste Crisis?
The migration of people into the world’s urban centres has created crisis levels of waste. According to the…
2018’s Best Places In US For Halloween
It’s once again the most spook-tacular time of the year! Kids and adults alike dress up and treats…
Do Cities Have Too Much Parking?
Minimum parking requirements create more parking than is needed. This in turn encourages more driving at a time…
See How Singapore Airlines Prepares Its Aircraft For The World’s Longest Non-Stop Commercial Flight
Singapore Airlines (SIA), the national carrier of Singapore, is set to launch the world’s longest, non-stop commercial flight…
Preparing Your City For The Electric Vehicle Surge? Ask Oslo.
An automobile revolution is coming our way – only you might have trouble hearing it this time. Oslo’s…
See What Past Generations Thought Today’s Cities Would Look Like
These images depict how people in the past expected Los Angeles and other cities to look in the…
America’s Best Food Truck Cities
Over the past few years, food trucks have become ubiquitous in the country’s biggest cities, from Boston to San…
Where Are The Hipsters In Your City? These Crowdsourced Maps Will Show You
Hoodmaps offers a crowd-sourced mapping platform that gives users the ability to walk through a city like a local.…
Top Finance Apps For City Slickers
2018 is the year of the worker and in New York City, workers have seen a paycheck bump of…
These Are The World’s Most Future-Proof Cities
As technology changes the way people live and work, cities are undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Those that have…
5 California Tech Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Palo Alto and San Francisco are well-known tech hubs, but these lesser-known California cities offer great quality of…
NASA’s Building New Tools To Manage Water As Climate Dangers Grow
After an unusually dry winter, a late-season storm finally soaked California in early March, piling up several feet of…
Love The Bus, Save Your City
Talk of the transportation future is focused on the next shiny thing. But one old technology is central…
Air Pollution Increases Crime In Cities – Here’s How
The impact of air pollution on human health is well-documented. We know that exposure to high levels of…
Trees Help Cities Save Money – Here’s How
Megacities are on the rise. There are currently 47 such areas around the globe, each housing more than…
Why Getting Back To The Moon Is So Damn Hard
The $20 million Lunar X Prize was supposed to send startups into space. The cost turned out to…
The Global Housing Crisis
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century…
Algorithms Are Making American Inequality Worse
In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts…
How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Created During The Middle Ages
In an increasingly paperless world, it’s easy to forget books were once precious objects that were works of…
How Long Can The World’s ‘Least Sustainable’ City Survive?
Set deep in the Valley of the Sun, the lush and sprawling ‘megapolis’ has a problem – the…