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Cadillac Palace Theatre, November 2009

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The Armchair Urbanist looks at the well-intentioned, but very poorly implemented Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, and the great proposals to redesign it so it isn't a weird, low-traffic, but pedestrian-unfriendly heckscape. Plus: Ways that YOU can get involved if you live there!

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Adam Something takes down PragerU's very specious "MUH FREEDOMS!!" arguments against contemporary movements to reduce car dependency. (from two years ago).

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This week’s CityNerd episode focuses on great streets in Portland, OR, the legacy of the city’s former streetcar routes.

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Te Huia going across the Orakei Causeway, Auckland, 2024

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Tokyo

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The Arcadia on Broadway near Wilson. (Broadway was formerly named Evanston Avenue.)

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The Legacy Tower, a 72-story mixed-use development at the corner of South Wabash and East Monroe. Yes, it looks like a slim PS2.

Chicago, Illinois, USA

George Bakos

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Self-cleaning public toilets and automated bike parking in Japan

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Paramount Theatre, Aurora, Illinois, October 2012

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Ninos looks at the former Communist Party building in France, designed by Oscar Niemayer.

Srsly they should use this for Federation Headquarters in a future Star Trek movie.

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The Green Mill (Uptown, Chicago)

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From the ITN news archive: Reporting on the hazardous A19 road in Teesside in 1988, local councillor Mr. Davidson proclaimed it no dangerous than any other…and then this happened.

(It’s clear that the lanes are too narrow for high-speed travel, fwiw!)

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Carolyn Moore discusses the new Dublin City Transport Plan, which envisions a new low-traffic center city. (PDF here)