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Guardian Cities brings you a weekly roundup of the best articles, galleries, discussions and fun stuff about urban life, from the web
  • Pop-up village. residential flats.

    Dinner in a dumpster: are most urban pop-ups as silly as they sound?

    Have we reached peak pop-up, or is there more to this phenomenon than meets the eye?
  • Commuter on tube platform

    Subterranean sonic blues? A journey through the first ever London Underground sound map

    Is London’s tube network the city’s ‘sonic sewers’ or an iconic soundscape? Do familiar noises keep commuters moving like clockwork? A new interactive map delves into a strange world – one that may get stranger with the new night tube
  • San Francisco

    Airbnb has started building its own listings – will planning cities be next?

    With a new design studio and a communal house in a Japanese village, Airbnb has announced its ambitions to change the way we live, travel and share space. Some say the company are venturing into urban planning – are they?
  • Tremblin’s Rue Jules Ferry in Arles.

    The street artist 'translating' graffiti tags into digital typeface

    City links: Making graffiti legible, celebrating Mumbai’s art deco heritage, investigating the Olympic legacy in host cities and making Copenhagen look like Tokyo all feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories from the web
  • Pokémon Go players congregate in Toronto.

    Urban gamification: can Pokémon Go transform our public spaces?

    City links: Augmented reality tourism, drunk seagulls, subway deserts and a failed zero-carbon city feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories
  • A Paris street scene in front of a cafe in Marais.

    10-year-old girl wins fellowship to 'make the sad streets of Paris happy again'

    City links: Street art robots, a map tracing Barcelona’s history and ‘peak LA juice bar’ all feature in this week’s best city stories from around the globe
  • TreeWifi birdhouse

    Can 'smart' birdhouses help improve air quality in Amsterdam?

    City links: From behaviour-changing Wi-Fi in the trees to Jarvis Cocker as the voice of Sheffield’s trams, we round up the best city stories from this week
  • Images created with Post-it notes are seen in the windows of offices at 75 Varick Street in lower Manhattan

    From boredom to street art: New York offices wage a window 'Post-it war'

    City links: The art of procrastination, skyway urbanism, lost Tokyo designs and how to move a city feature in this week’s roundup of best urban stories
  • Chicago Skyline cable car

    Chicago plans 'Skyline' network of cable cars

    City links: Aerial transit in Chicago, gender-inclusive crosswalks and person-exclusive architecture feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories
  • Cars drive down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills

    Los Angeles to get on-demand 'driverless buses'

    City links: LA’s self-driving shuttles, Istanbul’s street cats, New York’s abandoned cinemas and the cities where rent swallows salary feature in this week’s roundup of the best urban stories from around the globe
  • Eurasian beavers love gnawing on trees.

    The beavers are back: animals return to Stockholm after almost a century

    City links: An ambitious urban photography project in Toronto, beavers make a comeback in the Swedish capital, and the Parisians who are suing City Hall over dirty streets, all feature in a roundup of this week’s best city stories
  • Cars drive along the Seattle Interstate 5 highway at sunset.

    Seattle's 'aggressive plan' to cut pollution with 15,000 electric vehicles

    City links: Driving ‘clean’ in the Emerald City, the world’s tackiest architecture and the birth of Gotham feature in this week’s roundup of best city stories
  • Singapore remains the world’s most expensive city for the third year running.

    Cheaper cities? Economist index shows cost of urban life is going down

    City links: A worldwide cost of living index, a failed ‘smart’ bus service and a new gentrification podcast all feature in this week’s pick of the best city stories
  • Line 6 of the Paris metro, which is undergoing an ambitious expansion project.

    Will Paris' €23bn metro expansion help unify the city?

    City links: Improving public transport in the French capital, topping a Seattle freeway with a linear park and a makeshift community library in war-torn Damascus feature in our roundup of this week’s best city stories
  • A rendering of the ‘Next Tokyo 2045’ project, including a mile-high skyscraper.

    The next Tokyo? Plan for 'flood-defence city' boasts first mile-high skyscraper

    City links: An ambitious proposal to protect the Japanese capital, the rise of night mayors and a greener Madrid all feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories from around the web
  • An aerial perspective of the Klarastaden scheme.

    High streets: Stockholm plans walkways connecting high-rise rooftops

    City links: Aerial walkways in Sweden’s capital, the results of Delhi’s car ban experiment and why New York coped with the blizzard better than Washington DC feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories
  • Enghaveparken flooded multi-court space

    Copenhagen's public spaces that turn into picturesque ponds when it rains

    City links: Floodable parks in Denmark’s capital, the rise of woodland gentrification and the Amsterdam urban farm powered by urinals all feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories
  • Map of Berlin average rents by subway station

    How much it costs to rent in Berlin – mapped by its metro stations

    City links: An unusual Berlin property map, Rotterdam’s floating forest and the fate of Delhi’s metro all feature in this week’s roundup of the best urban stories
  • Slalom House

    The ski slope apartment block planned for Kazakhstan's capital

    City links: Ski slope housing in Kazakhstan, abandoned palaces in Tunisia, flooding in Miami and Vietnam’s cycling capital feature in this week’s best city stories
  • Bus at Piazza Solferino square Turin city Piedmont region northern Italy

    Turin offers free public transport rides to combat dangerous pollution levels

    City links Free buses in Turin, the ‘horizontal elevator’ of Las Vegas, Japan’s recyling capital and the community at the heart of the Turner Prize feature in this week’s round-up of the best urban stories
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