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Networks of New York serves as a spotter’s guide to the city’s internet infrastructure, updated for a new era of data centers, surveillance tech, and AI fears, writes Sarah Holder. Read more: bloom.bg/4inSei4 📷: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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Polish cities rebuilding their historic centers after the devastation of World War II embraced the spirit of Postmodernism with colorful, anachronistic buildings. Read the latest Design Edition newsletter here: bloom.bg/3UAHKCK 📷: Friedemann Kohler/Picture Alliance/Getty Images
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The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh is planning a major renovation of the Heinz Architectural Center, the museum’s forum for design. To reimagine the space, the museum tapped AD—WO, a New York-based studio known principally for its artful exhibition designs. Read the latest Design Edition newsletter: bloom.bg/4iitsjn 📷: AD–WO/Carnegie Museum of Art
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Thousands of people once lived in alley homes in Washington, DC. The climate-conscious design studio BLDUS shows the promise of reviving them. Read more: bloom.bg/4ifbtZE 📷: Alex Kent/Bloomberg
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Adept at both neoclassical flair and drab concrete, architect Josef Kaiser defined the surprising Cold War style of East Germany's architecture. Read more: bloom.bg/4zS2Zis 📷: Schnepp Renou
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A project in Chicago that seeks to obscure George Washington is one of hundreds of efforts to rethink which historical figures get memorialized. Read more: bloom.bg/4yXiS70 📷: Jon Song Photography
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Prague preserved its historic core while other European capitals rebuilt. Now billionaire-backed projects are transforming old rail yards and industrial land into entirely new neighborhoods. Read more: bloom.bg/4yZVS7q 📷: Martin Divisek/EPA/Shutterstock
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Affordable housing advocates want to rewrite Massachusetts’s minimum lot size rules, which often mandate big lots for new single-family homes. Foes see a loss of local control. Read more: bloom.bg/4yrKRKU 📷: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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A new book on demolished buildings highlights Japan’s propensity to scrap and rebuild rather than renovate. Will the next generation fight harder for preservation? Read more: bloom.bg/3Ucp2RJ 📷: Paulo Fridman/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
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The finest modernist architecture in Texas can be found with the corn dogs and midway games at the Texas State Fair. Read more: bloom.bg/4hPAxaM 📷: Donovan Reese/Getty Images
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Boston, Cleveland and New York City are combining housing complexes with public library branches in a bid to add affordable units and boost community services. Read more: bloom.bg/4zE9sNH 📷: Jonathan Blanc/New York Public Library
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After a century of fighting over them, US cities like New York largely abandoned their public bathrooms. That's starting to change. Read about the new book chronicling the troubled history of restroom access and how these spaces have always reflected and reinforced social inequality: bloom.bg/47sIAV4 📷: Bill Tompkins/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images
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An exhibit on artist Isamu Noguchi highlights how his approach to open-ended play design was ahead of its time. Read more: bloom.bg/4isukBQ 📷: Fredrik Brauer
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Can the most ancient of building materials compete with concrete and steel to build more climate-friendly skyscrapers? Read more: bloom.bg/4zHIJjq 📷: Tim Soar/Groupwork
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Could an electric hydrofoil catamaran finally deliver a fast, quiet, clean urban ferry system? Read the latest Design Edition newsletter here: bloom.bg/4dKT4Tb 📷: Courtesy of Vessev
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Design Edition is Bloomberg CityLab's weekly newsletter about architecture, development and design — and the people who make buildings happen. Read and subscribe ➡️ bloom.bg/design-edition
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Get thought-provoking stories, ideas and analysis from cities around the world. Read the latest edition of CityLab Weekly and subscribe: bloom.bg/4vH1KkV
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Get thought-provoking stories, ideas and analysis from cities around the world. Read the latest edition of CityLab Weekly and subscribe: bloom.bg/4vH1KkV
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A hulking fortress-like brick structure designed to be fireproof and largely kept in darkness is now the light-filled home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. Read more in the latest Design Edition: bloom.bg/4yk7alG 📷: Iwan Baan
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In New Orleans, the new Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park converts maritime warehouses into a greenway to connect the Mississippi River and the French Quarter. Read the latest edition of the Design Edition newsletter here: bloom.bg/4rJ7F7k 📷: Timothy Hursley
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Cleveland wants to transform Burke Lakefront Airport into a park, following in the steps of other cities that found new uses for old urban airfields. But that plan might not fly. Read more: bloom.bg/4ynNezf 📷: Laser1987/iStockphoto
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Converted garages and basements are becoming a bigger part of the national housing conversation over their potential to ease shortages of lower-cost rental units. Read more: bloom.bg/47y5XMK 📷: Samara
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Anthropologist Nick Kawa's book "After the Flush" explores environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional sewer systems. Read the review: bloom.bg/4j1XW9T 📷: Nick Kawa
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Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue, writes David Zipper. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about? Read his perspective here: bloom.bg/3VrDvJN 📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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What happens when you travel without a smartphone? Thu-Huong Ha tried it in hyperconnected Singapore — navigating QR codes, app-only services and a city built for life online. Read more: bloom.bg/4hAq9Cm 📷: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg
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New York built a clutch of elaborate, experimental skyscrapers in the late 19th century. Many haven’t survived. Read the latest Design Edition newsletter here: bloom.bg/4da9ZhP 📷: Geo. P. Hall & Son/The New York Historical/Getty Images
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Many activists who cut their teeth fighting data center projects in their communities are now riding a wave of tech pushback to seek office in local elections. Read more: bloom.bg/4hlkhww 📷️: Ghawam Kouchak
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Britain’s river crossings face growing strain from heavy traffic, extreme weather and funding shortages. Now some of London’s bridges really are falling down. Read more: bloom.bg/3TyfzUv 📷️: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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The Buffalo Bills' new Hallmark Stadium puts less emphasis on tailgating antics and whiteout weather conditions. But the new Populous-designed facility is still true to the Bills' rabid fanbase. Read more: bloom.bg/3VOR9GS 📷: Timothy T. Ludwig/Getty Images North America
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Some city layouts are better for shorter commutes. A new study finds the best design is a round shape with the tallest buildings in the center. Read more: bloom.bg/4hkUq88 📷: Rafael Prieto-Curiel
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Plans approved by the Kennedy Center Board include hiring an architecture firm that designs K-12 schools in Minneapolis, according to documents outlining the $250 million project. However, Donald Trump's renovation plans for the building are lacking key details, design experts say. Read more: bloom.bg/4iOEPjG 📷: Graeme Sloan/Getty Images
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Singapore's unique vehicle quota system has made it one of the world’s most expensive places to buy a new car. Read more on how it works, and why it’s unlikely to succeed elsewhere, according to David Zipper: bloom.bg/4ruekSZ 📷️: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art building is the work of Ma Yansong, founder of the Beijing architecture practice MAD. The museum is not his first big project in the US, but it’s still making quite a splash, writes Kriston Capps. Read the latest edition of the Design Edition newsletter: bloom.bg/3UUVuYK 📷️: Iwan Baan
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Municipal pipes that might be more than a century old are struggling to deal with more severe storms, heat and drought. The cyberattacks aren’t helping, either. Read more: bloom.bg/4xqyAWN 📷: Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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Empty restaurants, stalled towers and shuttered scam compounds now line Sihanoukville’s beachfront, the result of Cambodia’s crackdown on the city’s criminal economy. Read more: bloom.bg/46ehgJz 📷: Erika Pineros/Bloomberg
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With little in the way of organization or themes, George Lucas’s new museum of graphic illustration in Los Angeles leaves it to the public to decide what it all means, writes Carolina A. Miranda. Read more: bloom.bg/4xRYZhj 📷: Hufton+Crow
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Temporary dining sheds that emerged during the pandemic became valuable extra real estate for restaurants facing brutal margins. Now they must survive another challenge: bureaucracy. Read more: bloom.bg/4j3M7zQ 📷: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
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Drones are getting harder to detect and easier to deploy. Cities are testing everything from nets to multimillion-dollar missiles as they race to protect civilians. Read more: bloom.bg/4xP8LAz 📷: Ivan Antypenko/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images
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"They had seen this event on television and seeing the steel come into their community was a way to make this surreal event real." Fragments of the World Trade Center buildings were distributed around the world — many for DIY memorials that allowed communities to take ownership of remembering 9/11. Read more: bloom.bg/4d7SsXm 📷: REDA/Universal Images Group Editorial
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Waymo, Zoox and Tesla are clamoring to bring autonomous ride-hailing to cities like New York and Boston. But it’s small towns and rural areas that could see the biggest upside from AVs, writes David Zipper. Read his perspective here: bloom.bg/4x7pyxK 📷️: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
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As heat waves intensify, cities are racing to develop ways to cool large outdoor areas, from simple mist-spraying towers to complex schemes to create artificial clouds. Read more: bloom.bg/4zTOyem 📷️: VCG/Visual China Group
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The first task for building the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library — which started long before construction in the Badlands in North Dakota — was to stabilize the butte from future erosion and try to restore the original prairie. Which meant hitting the books. Read the latest edition of the CityLab Design newsletter: bloom.bg/4cmudo6 📷️: Nic Lehoux
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A wave of redevelopment in New Orleans is finally catching up to several storm-damaged properties that have haunted the skyline since Hurricane Katrina. Read more: bloom.bg/4cjxSD4 📷️: Giancarlo D'Agostaro/Bloomberg
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How do you count 1.4 billion people? Or is it 1.3 billion? 1.5 billion? For the first time in a decade and a half, India is conducting a census. The population count, delayed by more than five years due to Covid-19 and various bureaucratic obstacles, requires agents to fan out across the vast country. Read more: bloom.bg/3SXFDYQ 📷️: Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Zuma Press
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Acoustic experts thought they’d be designing performance halls. Instead, the once-niche profession is receiving an “unprecedented” amount of work from data centers. Read more: bloom.bg/4qHiypy 📷️: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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The Lola Mora Cultural Center, a new museum devoted to the famed sculptor in Argentina, was a family affair for architect César Pelli. Read the latest edition of the CityLab Design newsletter: bloom.bg/4zHUWpd 📷️: Jason O’Rear
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A rash of recent cyclist and pedestrian deaths in the Virginia capital has brought promises for reform and plans for new road fixes. But change has been slow. Read more: bloom.bg/3SLSj4T 📷️: Norm Shafer/Washington Post via Getty Images
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Many tourists come to Southeast Asia for its historic streets and architecture. Rising land values and rapid development are putting some of the region's most distinctive buildings at risk. Read more: bloom.bg/4hR4dot 📷️: Karoline Kan/Bloomberg
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