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1	Jun 19, '25	NYC’s congestion pricing toll has cut Manhattan traffic delays by 25% and reduced gridlock in nearby New Jersey counties by as much as 14%, undercutting fears the policy would wors	50.4×	259k	950	214	70
2	Nov 21, '23	In New Jersey, Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities	25×	128k	382	77	25
3	Jan 10, '21	Barcelona is now warning landlords to fill vacant rental units with tenants or the government will take over their properties	22.3×	0	5.5k	1.2k	194
4	Jun 26, '23	Paris’ push to replace car lanes with sidewalks, bike paths and greenery steps up a gear with plans to remodel one of the city’s busiest, most polluted thoroughfares	19.7×	101k	254	56	18
5	Mar 20, '22	Wells Fargo has been sued for discriminating against Black homeowners by relying on a modernized version of "redlining" (via @bbgequality)	19.5×	0	3k	1.7k	270
6	Jul 4, '18	Why won’t Millennials join country clubs?	12.1×	0	244	81	19
7	Jul 16, '20	Barcelona is now warning landlords to fill vacant rental units with tenants or the government will take over their properties	11.9×	0	2.8k	734	60
8	Jul 16, '21	Using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, researchers hope that the data can help define "attraction value" for specific works of art, leading to changes in museum and ga	11.8×	0	781	158	186
9	Aug 7, '20	An estimated 27% of adults in the U.S. missed their rent or mortgage payment for July. That’s probably going to be worse in August.	10.8×	0	1.4k	1.2k	116
10	Apr 30, '21	1/ When people moved out of expensive cities, where did they go? A year of migration data reveals trends and interesting surprises:	10.1×	0	1.7k	647	573
11	Jun 4, '24	A phenomenon known as "white fortressing" is driving movements to form new cities and secede from majority-nonwhite regions in the US South, write @Luisa_Godinez_P and @BrianDSmedl	⚡ 9.5×	1.7M	692	108	511
12	Apr 11, '22	Anyone who has seen Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower will remember it. Studded with gray cubes, the striking building carries an obvious architectural message: This is a modular habit	8.0×	0	1.5k	520	299
13	Oct 30, '20	This election is like no other — and cities are preparing for the worst. A number of major U.S. cities are taking steps to avoid widespread voter intimidation and civil unrest ahea	7.9×	0	1.1k	489	128
14	Feb 2, '21	1/ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has unveiled legislation that offers billions in federal dollars for cities willing to demolish urban highways that razed or divided neighbo	6.9×	0	1.3k	415	170
15	Sep 14, '20	The Minneapolis police department has been making an average of 80% fewer traffic stops each week since May 25, the day of George Floyd’s death.	6.8×	0	1k	472	68
16	Apr 24, '23	While the plan will not be a complete car ban, the goal is to significantly reduce traffic in the historic city center	6.0×	31k	293	41	8
17	Jul 30, '20	“To say that a rule that requires cities to analyze segregation would ‘destroy the suburbs’ is as close as you can get to an endorsement of racial segregation without actually sayi	6.0×	0	1.2k	668	35
18	Jan 13, '21	1/ After a local campaign pressured Airbnb to take aggressive action for the week of inauguration and FBI intelligence warned of armed demonstrations in 50 states and D.C., Airbnb	5.7×	0	1.2k	518	44
19	Oct 5, '19	A universal basic income experiment in Stockton, California, is nearly halfway over. How has $500 a month affected the lives of 125 random residents? @sarahsholder reports:	5.5×	0	1.6k	410	24
20	Jun 12, '16	There are more gun dealers than grocery stores or coffee shops in the U.S.	5.4×	0	612	907	1
21	May 30, '21	We only know many of the lurid details about the massive tragedy in Tulsa because of a Black woman named Mary E. Jones Parrish. Her book, "Events of the Tulsa Disaster," published	5.2×	0	1.2k	493	92
22	Sep 30, '20	Black neighborhoods in Chicago see more poverty, air pollution, extreme heat and flood damage, and less access to health care and food — all factors that make residents more vulner	4.5×	0	713	455	94
23	Dec 3, '16	D.C. punks lit up the façade of the Trump International Hotel with a basically legal, homegrown, historic protest	4.2×	0	803	490	0
24	Jul 30, '20	Last week, the Trump administration introduced a new fair housing rule that winds back desegregation requirements — and flouts the review process, setting up a legal challenge. Thi	4.1×	0	489	439	108
25	Jul 8, '19	Andrew Yang wants to fight suburban blight by repurposing dying malls, @kristoncapps writes:	3.9×	0	1.3k	204	12
26	Nov 30, '21	Seoul is the first major city to announce that it will enter the metaverse, with plans to establish a platform for "contactless communication" by the end of 2022	3.8×	0	658	231	107
27	Sep 22, '20	Protests against police brutality and racism in the U.S. have sparked calls to defund police departments Yet our analysis found that many of the largest cities are actually boostin	3.7×	0	449	360	67
28	Jul 30, '20	“We cannot return to the days of redlining and white flight,” says AOC.	3.5×	0	864	214	10
29	Sep 1, '19	What's the deal With @AOC's retro-style GND posters?	3.4×	0	934	132	24
30	Aug 22, '16	Sex toys and gun laws collide on campus in Austin	3.4×	0	709	293	0
31	Jul 30, '20	Almost immediately, lawmakers responded. Amendments introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would work to defund the pair of new federal regulations designed to roll	3.3×	0	794	305	16
32	Mar 15, '21	1/ Flooding is a rising threat across the United States, with homeowners facing as much as $19 billion in damages every year. What puts a neighborhood at high risk? Geography is ke	3.3×	0	454	292	112
33	May 26, '16	Here's how many hours you need to work at minimum wage to afford a 1-bedroom apartment	3.1×	0	584	394	0
34	Jun 12, '17	Minimum-wage workers can only afford to rent a 1-bedroom apartment in 12 U.S. counties, total	3.0×	0	344	433	0
35	Aug 10, '20	A group of several hundred urban planners is calling for the largest U.S. planning organization to support defunding the police.	3.0×	0	463	265	60
36	Apr 11, '22	Architect Kisho Kurokawa conceived Nakagin as a prime example of Metabolism, a postwar movement that saw buildings as megastructures that could evolve and change, like an organism	2.9×	0	841	110	102
37	Jan 20, '21	1/ America's states and cities are emerging from political exile	2.8×	0	630	184	54
38	Feb 24, '21	More than 700,000 Americans are homeless, a number that is expected to rise in the aftermath of Covid-19. How did this happen? We investigate America's urgent problem — and what ca	2.7×	0	393	172	64
39	Feb 19, '18	Low-income Americans are more likely to live in housing that wastes energy, which saddles them with disproportionately high energy costs	2.6×	0	371	289	0
40	Jul 30, '20	These new federal regulations would weaken enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which requires communities that receive federal funds to undo their patterns of residential	2.6×	0	378	292	36
41	Aug 7, '20	The survey registers the deepest uncertainty across the South, where in some states, more than one-third of renters and homeowners said they missed their last rent or mortgage paym	2.6×	0	357	301	23
42	Apr 30, '21	2/ After much speculation about emptied downtowns and the prospect of remote work, a year of @USPS data gives the clearest picture yet of how people moved.	2.5×	0	525	179	83
43	Jun 23, '19	By 2030, Paris wants to have 50 percent of the city covered by fully porous, planted areas, including anything from new parkland to green roofs.	2.5×	0	582	207	9
44	Nov 17, '19	A phenomenal $2.2 billion will be invested into Berlin's public transit system every year until 2035. This financial commitment should make the American public transit official wee	2.4×	0	505	197	12
45	May 27, '19	The single biggest group of Americans who bike to work live in households that earn less than $10,000 yearly, notes research scientist Anne Lusk. (from February 2019)	2.4×	0	498	197	31
46	Jul 28, '21	Take any major U.S. city and you're likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway. The legacy of this racist transpo	2.4×	0	416	215	71
47	Jan 13, '21	2/ The financial cost of the announcement will largely fall on Airbnb, not individual hosts losing business: The company will reimburse hosts for the money they would have earned t	2.3×	0	751	128	6
48	Oct 23, '22	A Chicago program that dispatches mental health clinicians to some 911 calls has responded to several hundred emergencies without a single use of force or arrest	2.2×	0	524	183	26
49	Oct 30, '20	Smaller communities have seen some of the most intense violence by armed vigilantes in response to racial justice protests. Unfounded assertions of fraud by President Donald Trump	2.2×	0	369	136	19
50	Apr 11, '22	Built half a century ago during Japan's dizzying ascent as an economic power, the 140-unit complex has been left behind by the times, overshadowed by taller and sleeker skyscrapers	2.1×	0	497	129	51
51	Oct 23, '20	Demands for police accountability, criminal justice reform and racial justice have been translated from rallying cries and protest signs into initiatives on state and local ballots	2.0×	0	396	166	23
52	Apr 30, '21	3/ There is no urban exodus — perhaps it's more of an urban shuffle. Despite talk of mass moves to Florida and Texas, data shows most people who did move stayed close to where they	1.9×	0	461	156	39
53	Jun 25, '19	Most people saw him as a chronicler of food and culture. But Richard Florida writes, "I always saw him as a chronicler of cities, and a truly great urbanist." On #BourdainDay, revi	1.8×	0	444	159	16
54	Oct 30, '20	Major cities that have rolled out plans to protect voters include: ➡️ NYC ➡️ Chicago ➡️ Philadelphia But questions about how smaller communities are preparing remain.	1.8×	0	385	113	20
55	Sep 14, '20	But stark racial disparities still remain. Between the end of May & the end of August, 47% of traffic stops recorded were of people identified as Black and 7% as East African.	1.8×	0	313	156	18
56	Jul 30, '20	In Trump’s ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reali	1.8×	0	341	180	19
57	Jun 14, '20	Here's an idea: Make maps for bike infrastructure as if the lanes, trails, and paths constituted a connected transit system. #citylabarchive	1.8×	0	443	121	19
58	Jun 5, '19	Ireland was an early pioneer of battery-electric trains. Now it wants a nationwide fleet of them, @FeargusOSull reports.	1.7×	0	448	154	1
59	Jan 13, '21	3/ "Thousands of people traveled to D.C. to attempt a violent insurrection," reads a letter to Airbnb officials from Shutdown D.C., an activist group. "Many of the individuals invo	1.7×	0	488	133	9
60	Dec 4, '20	For Citylab, @Richard_Florida analyzed how metro areas voted in 2020: 🗳️ Republicans drew support from White, working-class regions of the country 🗳️ Democrats drew from smaller	1.7×	0	278	105	62
61	May 29, '21	Follow this map from New York to California to learn about 12 infrastructure projects with the potential to help make cities more livable and equitable: This thread provides a snap	1.7×	0	290	112	103
62	Oct 9, '19	Copenhagen has lowered emissions by a dramatic 61 percent. "Copenhagen shows that it is possible to rapidly decarbonize over a short period of time," says Michael Doust of @c40citi	1.6×	0	339	156	11
63	Apr 30, '21	9/ In the New York City region, many people who moved during the pandemic migrated to as close as the next block or the next borough over. More Manhattanites moved to Brooklyn than	1.6×	0	298	149	24
64	May 25, '18	Plastic straws could be banned in New York City	1.6×	0	474	86	1
65	Jun 9, '19	It's time for America to rethink all those destructive highways that plow through neighborhoods and seal off waterfronts. #citylabarchive	1.6×	0	364	131	12
66	Jan 20, '21	2/ President-elect Joe Biden's proposed cabinet includes at least six officials who have led municipalities or states, like Pete Buttigieg and Gina Raimondo. That's in sharp contra	1.6×	0	441	107	13
67	May 26, '19	The single biggest group of Americans who bike to work live in households that earn less than $10,000 yearly, notes research scientist Anne Lusk. (from February 2019)	1.6×	0	319	158	16
68	Sep 30, '20	We wanted to show the relationships between these disparities, so we mapped them. These maps are a stark illustration of the same patterns repeated over and over.	1.6×	0	272	164	33
69	Jul 21, '19	By 2030, Paris wants to have 50 percent of the city covered by fully porous, planted areas, including anything from new parkland to green roofs.	1.5×	0	375	122	3
70	Mar 30, '19	Amsterdam plans to systematically strip its center of parking spaces in the coming years, making way for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more trees, @FeargusOSull reports.	1.5×	0	334	133	5
71	Oct 30, '20	Think about that: staying quiet to avoid becoming targets. “It says something about America right now that we have to have these conversations,” says @BrooksRainwater	1.5×	0	362	88	11
72	Jul 2, '20	"With the twin pandemics of racism and Covid-19, it's time for us to extend the social safety net," says Mayor @MichaelDTubbs, who is leading one of the first major U.S. basic inco	1.5×	0	432	110	2
73	Feb 15, '19	"The fact is, the game is rigged. And it takes leadership to call that out and figure out how to un-rig this game, and hold these mega-corporations accountable." —@rontkim	1.5×	0	451	89	1
74	Aug 7, '20	Among renters alone, just over one-third said in a late-July survey that they had little to no confidence that they could make their August rent payment.	1.5×	0	266	177	8
75	Apr 8, '19	A new study finds conclusive evidence that states with stricter gun-control laws have lower rates of both murders and suicides.	1.4×	0	284	133	8
76	Dec 4, '18	Georgetown isn’t the biggest or bluest city in Texas. But last year, it became the first one to convert to 100 percent renewable energy, as well as the largest U.S. city so far. Ma	1.4×	0	366	117	2
77	Sep 14, '20	These disparities have long characterized Minneapolis traffic enforcement: The city is about 64% white and 19% Black or African American. And yet year after year, more Black Minnea	1.4×	0	231	132	11
78	Apr 11, '22	When they were built, the capsules weren't meant to be permanent residences, but small apartments for salarymen during the country's rapid economic expansion — an affordable way to	1.4×	0	418	66	33
79	Sep 14, '20	Since Floyd was killed, average rates of these stops across census tracts have plummeted below pandemic levels: an average of 70 a week from May 25 to the end of August, compared w	1.4×	0	262	116	8
80	Apr 11, '22	"Something positive will come out of it," says Tatsuyuki Maeda, who owns more than 12 capsule units and spent years trying to save the building. He plans to build a mini capsule to	1.3×	0	393	66	24
81	Oct 29, '19	When children walk and ride their bikes, they see the neighborhood differently. #citylabarchive	1.3×	0	288	108	6
82	Jul 19, '19	By 2030, Paris wants to have 50 percent of the city covered by fully porous, planted areas, including anything from new parkland to green roofs.	1.3×	0	285	117	5
83	Jul 10, '22	"I was quite shocked." Here's why Singapore's cars can cost as much as an apartment	1.3×	0	266	86	44
84	Mar 8, '22	For Mexico City's feminist activists, physical marks on public spaces are a direct confrontation with the city about what it considers more worthy of defending: city landmarks or a	1.3×	0	350	94	12
85	Nov 9, '17	🌃🌃🌃 🌃 🌃 🌃 🌃🌃🌃 🚍🚍🚍 🚍 🚍 🚍 🚍🚍🚍 🏙️🏙️🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ 🚇🚇🚇 🚇 🚇 🚇 🚇🚇🚇 🌇🌇🌇 🌇 🌇🌇 🌇 🌇🌇🌇 🚲🚲🚲 🚲 🚲🚲🚲 🚲 🚲🚲🚲	1.3×	0	384	83	0
86	Dec 10, '20	The vaccine is here. With Pfizer’s expected FDA approval, shipments of the first doses to U.S. cities could begin as soon as next week. But local authorities still have to overcome	1.2×	0	269	73	10
87	Dec 28, '12	Bored at your quiet office today? Allow us to distract you with our favorite city time-lapse videos of 2012	1.2×	0	311	125	0
88	Aug 10, '20	Over 650 city planning professionals have called to reallocate some of the funds from “hyper-militarized police departments" to anti-racist planning efforts.	1.2×	0	251	125	9
89	Oct 6, '22	With coal in shorter supply, Poles are being encourages to burn whatever they can to keep warm (via @climate)	1.2×	0	263	111	7
90	May 26, '19	Every city has a pattern. (from the archives)	1.2×	0	271	107	27
91	Oct 30, '20	Why are some cities reluctant to speak about their preparations? Perhaps because they haven’t done any, or to avoid any anti-government schemes such as the FBI-thwarted plot to kid	1.2×	0	264	62	12
92	Sep 23, '20	Here's an idea: Make maps for bike infrastructure as if the lanes, trails, and paths constituted a connected transit system. (from the archives)	1.2×	0	272	90	15
93	Jul 5, '21	The poorest U.S. neighborhoods have 41% less tree cover than the wealthiest ones, according to a new mapping project	1.2×	0	263	97	20
94	Apr 11, '22	Despite their Metabolist form, none of the Capsule Tower's cubes were ever removed or replaced. That's because each one was connected to the tower at two hook points plus a few bol	1.1×	0	367	44	15
95	Sep 12, '22	Germany’s 3-month experiment with super-cheap public transport reduces carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to powering about 350,000 homes for a year	1.1×	0	305	91	4
96	Feb 2, '21	2/ The Economic Justice Act, a spending package worth over $435 billion, includes a $10 billion pilot program that would provide funds for communities to examine transit infrastruc	1.1×	0	310	70	14
97	Sep 14, '20	The drop during a summer of public police criticism is far more dramatic than a dip after the start of the coronavirus pandemic.	1.0×	0	248	83	11
98	Apr 22	The week’s most thought-provoking stories, ideas and analysis from cities around the world. Subscribe to our CityLab Weekly newsletter:	1.0×	5.1k	6	0	0
99	Jan 13, '21	5/ Short-term rental operators such as Airbnb face new scrutiny in an era of pandemic parties and riot tourism. Airbnb's announcement is the latest in a series of steps it has take	0.9×	0	246	60	6
100	Jan 20, '21	3/ With the release of Biden's proposed economic stimulus package, local leaders got a glimpse of what an ally in the White House will mean. The plan would provide $350 billion in	0.9×	0	268	61	6
101	Mar 5, '19	San Jose Mayor @sliccardo's proposal would require all firearm retailers in the city to record sales transactions, using audio and video, as evidence if the gun later falls into th	0.9×	0	230	70	1

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