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    May 7

    As Accra's population expanded in the late 19th century, residents recreated communal homes from the countryside. Today, this community-focused architecture model may provide inspiration for future urban housing in Ghana. Read more about compound houses:

    The Design History of Ghana’s Compound Houses
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  2. 8 minutes ago

    Efforts to brand the city as "Silicon Bayou" after Katrina didn't pan out. But New Orleans is now seeing a fresh wave of technology hype — and trying to make sure locals aren’t left behind. reports:

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  3. 2 hours ago

    This bizarre conspiracy theory argues that everything you know about the history of architecture is wrong

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Let's open streets up to kids this summer

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    4 hours ago

    Don't miss & ’s Michael McKee's conversation with President & CEO at . Live Wednesday 5/19 at 11:35 AM ET!

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  6. 4 hours ago

    How has the narrative of the Great American Road Trip evolved over time?

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  7. 6 hours ago

    How air conditioners can generate water to brew beer, flush toilets and water gardens

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  8. 7 hours ago

    New York state's property tax assessment scheme is horribly broken, and a plan to fix it is stuck in the mud

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  9. 9 hours ago

    To fully explore the question of "urban exodus" during the pandemic, we needed a way to probe whether people within those regions were moving out to the suburbs. walks us through CityLab's data research

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  10. 10 hours ago

    Shanghai is looking to its further develop its vast suburbs, while avoiding the traffic and sprawl issues of a city like Los Angeles

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  11. 11 hours ago

    If people move to new places without fundamentally changing the unsustainable systems that are causing climate change, the outcomes will only become worse, everywhere

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  12. 13 hours ago

    The office of the future isn't necessarily a single office or building, writes . It's a network of urban spaces

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  13. 14 hours ago

    When people moved out of expensive cities, where did they go? A year of migration data reveals these interesting surprises

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  14. 16 hours ago

    Maps reveal how mail service shaped the American West

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  15. 17 hours ago

    Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says we'll see a "travel rebound unlike anything you've seen in a century." He spoke to after the company exceeded analyst expectations for bookings in the first quarter

    Airbnb CEO Expects Biggest Travel Rebound in a Century
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  16. 19 hours ago

    Think of it as a recipe book for the roads — and it is up for revision. details six of the draft's biggest flaws

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Boston's recovery from a 19th-century cholera outbreak follows a similar path to ones in Amsterdam and Paris, where disease sparked major rethinks about how cities were planned and built

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  18. 21 hours ago

    How a 19th century cholera epidemic sparked one of the most ambitious urban renovation projects in American history

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  19. 22 hours ago

    Across 10 of America's largest urban Central Business Districts, employee visits to the office stood at roughly a quarter (27%) of pre-pandemic levels according to recent data

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  20. 23 hours ago

    The car-calmed zone will be a new tool to fend off a post-pandemic car comeback within Paris’ innermost ring of boulevards

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  21. 23 hours ago

    Of the 100 most vulnerable cities, 99 are in Asia

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