If a friend told you he was off to take a dip in Baltimore’s Harbor, you’d probably be concerned for his health and sanity. But five years from now, swimming in Baltimore’s waterways might not sound so crazy—and there’s an innovative piece of technology to thank. Read more…
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Baltimore’s Stealthy Plan to Make Its Harbor Swimmable By 2020
Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they’ve found another . Read more…
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These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1,700 Years
Even though at least seven autonomous car programs swear they’ll be street-ready by 2020, the truth is that US cities are woefully unprepared for this reality. Only six percent of the US’s largest cities include any language about self-driving vehicles in their long-range transportation plans. Read more…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Be On Roads by 2020 But No US Cities Will Likely Be Ready
Crews working on water mains below New York City’s Greenwich Village made an appropriately spooky find for the week after Halloween: A 19th-century burial vault containing the remains of least a dozen people. Read more…
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Workers Discover 19th-Century Burial Vault With a Dozen Human Skeletons Under Manhattan
Over at The Atlantic ’s CityLab , there’s a great post about how Japanese kids can run errands around town and take public transportation free of worry or supervision. It’s thanks to the country’s incredible infrastructure and culture of safety. Read more…
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Japanese Six-Year-Olds Can Ride Trains Alone Thanks to the Country’s Amazing Infrastructure
As the EU’s self-appointed morality police, Germany publicly spanked Greece earlier this month for being so financially frivolous. Well, Germany has its own money troubles! Namely, a catastrophe-riddled $6 billion airport that the country continues to pour money into—with no opening date in sight. Scheiße! Read more…
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Berlin Spends $16 Million a Month To Maintain This Never-Opened Airport
It has been a month of supertall news to top them all, with the World Trade Center’s record-breaking 1, 776-foot height possibly getting scooped by a surprise spire in Midtown Manhattan. Now a new rendering from Visualhouse posted at New York Yimby gives an idea of how dramatically the New York City skyline will change just 15 years from now. Read more…
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Here’s What a Supertall New York Skyline Will Look Like In 2030
Waze works by requiring its users to manually report what they see on the road: traffic jams, potholes, speed traps. Now the City of Los Angeles will ask its Wazers to be vigilant about reporting one more thing: The vehicles possibly involved in hit-and-run collisions. Read more…
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LA Is Turning Wazers Into Hit-and-Run Vigilantes
In the quest to make parking suck less, there are apps that help you find a space, and meters where you can pay with a swipe of your credit card. But LA has launched a simple, low-tech solution to make parking better: Well-designed signage that offers no ambiguity whatsoever when it comes to where you can park, when you can park there, and how much it will cost. Read more…
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LA’s New Parking Signs Are Brilliant and Every City Should Copy Them
Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservations in the city, starting this summer. The taxes will be paid by guests. Last week, the company announced a different partnership in Portland, Oregon, where Airbnb itself will pay some city taxes. Read more…
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Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservati