Browsing: Cities
In 2019, I was working as an equity research analyst at UBS. I am an avid ping pong player, but…
If you’ve ever experienced the strange silence of an electric vehicle passing by, you know that EVs don’t make much…
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in more than a year, a…
Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for seven years in a row thanks to its robust social welfare…
‘I just cried’: Atlanta fixes 4-day-long water leak by cutting off an entire neighborhood where residents now can’t take showers or flush
Milena Franco, a resident of the city’s Midtown neighborhood, said she and her husband had water all weekend. But Monday…
Europe’s hottest talent is moving to the continent’s second cities like Manchester, Rotterdam, and Stuttgart for a better quality of life—so bosses are following suit
Workers are packing up their belongings and turning their backs on the constant grind of Europe’s most intense capital cities,…
Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, face poly-crises: growing population pressures, emissions, waste, traffic and noise, aging obsolete infrastructure,…
Office occupancy has hovered near 50% for 13 months. Here’s why cities can shrug it off—for now
Four years after Covid-19 filled hospital emergency rooms, closed schools and emptied out cities, US offices remain about half vacant.…
Minneapolis Mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying a unique strategy to get remote workers to return downtown: insulting them. “I don’t…











