City links
Guardian Cities brings you a weekly roundup of the best articles, galleries, discussions and fun stuff about urban life, from the web
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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