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Dec 7

Hong Kong has gained a reputation for having some of the smallest and most expensive apartments in the world. We take you inside the history of the microflat. Explore more iconic home designs that shaped global cities: bloom.bg/3GlWw3j

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Road salt can harm the environment and eat away highway department budgets. In search of eco-friendly winter alternatives, some states have turned to vegetables.

@sarahsholder

reports:

The Cities That Battle Winter With Beets

Too much road salt can pollute urban waterways and damage vehicles. To de-ice roads, some cities are looking for greener alternatives, of a vegetable nature.

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To dispel misperceptions about how customers arrive to retail stores, local officials could collect travel survey data, writes

@DavidZipper

Note to Store Owners: Not All Holiday Shoppers Drive

Retailers often resist bike lanes and other street changes that reduce the number of nearby parking spaces. But research shows that fewer cars are often good for business.

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🌲 Skyscrapers made of wood? The man who helped start a fossil-fuel giant is now investing in a mass timber mill that he says can be part of the fight against climate change bloom.bg/3ytkRSc

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Canadian house prices jump more than 25%, a record gain propelled by a historic supply shortage

Canadian Home Prices Surge a Record 25% Amid Persistent Shortage

Canadian house prices jumped more than 25% in November from a year earlier, a record gain propelled by a historic supply shortage.

While undergrads at some U.S. campuses sleep in their cars, struggling schools have a surplus of dorm rooms.

@patrickcsisson

reports:

Student Housing Crisis Offers Hard Lessons for U.S. Colleges

While undergrads at some U.S. campuses sleep in their cars, struggling schools have a surplus of dorm rooms.

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Now there's a shortage of vaccinated child-care workers (via

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A Rush on Vaccinated Nannies Is Making the Child-Care Crisis Even Worse

Inoculated child-care workers in high demand are turning down six-figure jobs.

To dispel misperceptions about how customers arrive to retail stores, local officials could collect travel survey data, writes

@DavidZipper

Note to Store Owners: Not All Holiday Shoppers Drive

Retailers often resist bike lanes and other street changes that reduce the number of nearby parking spaces. But research shows that fewer cars are often good for business.

For Senegal, the latest ban is not its first attempt to restrict plastics, and it's unclear what enforcement will look like in 2022

Why Senegalese Women Are Protesting a Ban on Plastic

Restrictions on single-use bags are expected to disproportionately impact women-owned businesses that sell sachets of clean water on city streets.

In the new tranche of almost $1 billion in RAISE grant selections from the U.S. Department of Transportation announced earlier this month, roads were the losers

Car-Free Transportation Gets Boost from U.S. Grant Program

A program that primarily funded highways during the Trump administration has pivoted away from roads in its new disbursement, marking a potential shift in infrastructure spending.

Similar to the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, Newark repaired and replaced aging infrastructure. Next is to rebuild trust with residents

Can Mail-In Lead Tests Assure People Their Water Is Safe?

Newark, New Jersey, replaced all known lead service lines and provided 40,000 water filters. Now it wants to rebuild trust by mailing test kits to homes.

Here's a very CityLab gift guide for you

CityLab’s 2021 Gift Guide

Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.

This is how to fix Brooklyn's worst intersection

Perilous to cross and unpleasant to drive, ride or walk along, Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue badly needs a safety-minded makeover. Here’s how transportation advocates would do it.

Anatomy of a Bad Road