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The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth? : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - 2 views

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If the world lived in one city

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Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness | South China Morning Post - 2 views

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Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog | World news | The Observer - 2 views

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Civilizing the City by Rajeev Chandrasekhar - Project Syndicate - 2 views

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Hong Kong's human battery hens: Claustrophobic images show how slum families squeeze th... - 6 views

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12 Cities Leading the Way in Sustainability | BillMoyers.com - 4 views

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Mapping the Age of Every Building in Manhattan - CityLab - 0 views

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Fatberg ahead! How London was saved from a 15-tonne ball of grease | Environment | theg... - 1 views

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22 Words | Maps of major cities as abstract modern art [7 pictures] - 4 views

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Urbanized movie trailer - 5 views

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good introduction movie for IB Urban Environments unit

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Upgrade your slum - 5 views

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Slum upgrading in Sao Paulo Brazil

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How are cities' accelerating growth affecting the poorest children? - 2 views

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Interactive map: England's green belt - Telegraph - 1 views

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BBC - Future - Technology - 2050: Building better cities for an overcrowded world - 2 views

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BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Solving transport headaches in the cities of 2050 - 1 views

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Google Street View Captures Stunning Images of American Poverty Too | Motherboard - 3 views

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Interesting take on the voyeurism and imagery of Google Earth.

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Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again | Grist - 1 views

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tearing down a busy, elevated freeway, re-daylighting the river that had been buried beneath it, and creating a spectacular downtown green space, all in under two and a half years — is nothing short of amazing, not because it actually worked (there was plenty of evidence from other cities to suggest that it could), but because they were able to get public support for it.
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Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable "System D," the world's unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it's an economy of underappreciated power and scope.
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Walkable Cities - 3 views

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Interesting Tedx video on changing our dependency on cars and urban sprawl.

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37 Things to Consider Before Moving to Portland | Estately Blog - 0 views

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Yep. Urban pull factors, stages in the life cycle, and just plain fun,

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