With thousands of vacant lots now beautified, the city is showing that targeting places instead of people can work wonders.

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See what stories caught our attention this week, including the ongoing influence of a New York traffic solution and a shorter path to a college degree.

With thousands of vacant lots now beautified, the city is showing that targeting places instead of people can work wonders.

See what stories caught our attention this week, including the ongoing influence of a New York traffic solution and a shorter path to a college degree. See what stories caught our attention this week, ...

David Benjamin’s recipe for construction materials sounds like witchcraft: Mix corn stalks with hemp and mushroom roots, pour the mixture into molds that resemble the shapes you need, and voilà, the ...

From an airplane window, Hainan, an oval-shaped island floating alone in the expanse of the South China Sea, resembles a sea sponge. In reality, the Chinese province genuinely is a kind of engineered ...

Most ideas that start over a bottle of wine don’t go anywhere, but this one is different. Two Tulane University seniors in New Orleans, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, were drinking wine in their ...

The red-brick Frampton Park Estate, a set of five-story social housing blocks in east London, is built like many other residential complexes in the British capital. Even the lines of solar panels that ...

This story is part of Cool Project, a series about surprising ways cities are cranking down the heat in a warming world. Learn more about the series and the artwork here. To travel through Stuttgart ...

It’s a clear winter morning in the village of Armeniș, deep in the southern Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Romania. Fluffy clouds sit atop the mountain peaks as a chill breeze carries a hint of ...