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Urbanism & transportation – Vox

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Last updated on Jul 25, 2023
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In defense of the "gentrification building"
9:16
Why so many new buildings are covered in rectangles
8:55
How the US made affordable homes illegal
9:42
Why American public transit is so bad | 2020 Election
9:40
Are you supposed to tip an Uber driver?
6:33
Why so many suburbs look the same
7:20
Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from
6:16
New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean
5:17
The traffic solution most cities haven't tried
5:34
The design tricks that keep skyscrapers from swaying
4:15
Why safe playgrounds aren't great for kids
5:44
American segregation, mapped at day and night
6:49
The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
6:50
Don't blame scooters. Blame the streets.
5:40
What America's shopping mall decline means for social space
5:07
Why protected bike lanes are more valuable than parking spaces
4:52
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
5:31
Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
4:00
Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
6:26
Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane
3:16
It's not you. Commuting is bad for your health.
4:45
Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes
9:54
How streets, roads, and avenues are different
4:03
Why chronic floods are coming to New Jersey
7:01
How "levee wars" are making floods worse
6:48
Meet the enormous boats that carry your stuff
2:34
Why cities should plant more trees
3:11
This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?
10:23
Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums?
4:10
Why Philadelphia has thousands of murals
6:30
How highways wrecked American cities
4:39
The real story of the Green Book
4:17
The high cost of free parking
6:43
Road diets: designing a safer street
5:15
How cars went from boxy to curvy
4:01
Fuel is cheap. Why are we still paying to check bags?
3:11
Why Norway is full of Teslas
7:10
Why you're safer on a bike share than a regular bike
2:04
Why Japan has so many vending machines
4:47
The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
5:57
DC’s abandoned fire and police call boxes, explained
3:56
Airplane black boxes, explained
5:31
Why red light cameras are a scam
3:55
2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see
8:37
When carmakers taunted horses
4:31
The pneumatic tube's strange 150-year journey
3:42
Believe it or not, flying is safer than ever
1:08
The math of being a Lyft driver
2:43
Why gas prices are so low right now
2:11
The better way to board an airplane
2:36