Our travel is more transient these days, at least physically speaking; the documentation of our journeys less tangible, more digital.
The people of Brussels love to put their little-peeing-boy statue through festive costume changes – a Santa suit in wintertime, Count Dracula, a red-leather garment when they're in an Eastern groove. So you'd think they have a little compassion for an outsider who tried to give the statue his own fashion makeover. But nope.
The King has "instructed" that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's fast-growing capital city, build its new six-line Metro system in just four years. To compare: it took New York's MTA four years to renovate one station.
While much has been made of the connection between rising suicide and the economic crisis, many, if not most, of the states on this list have had relatively stable economies over the course of the crisis and recovery.
The police already have fairly sophisticated ways to tell if you're driving while drunk, but will they someday be able to tell if you're high as well?
Retail redlining is a more recent and less studied variation on redlining as it's been historically recognized in the housing sector.
In the modern terror era, major cities are all too aware of the ways attackers can use a piece of existing infrastructure to hide a weapon. Given this reality, what does a safe city look like now?
For mainland Luddites who prefer to sit down and read a book that their government has determined unsuitable for general consumption, the closest thing to a 3-D VPN is People's Recreation Community.
No one, I repeat, no one can do LEGO like Mike Doyle can.
Are you about to shoehorn yourself into an overcrowded subway for an hour-long ordeal of track delays and strangers' elbows in your gut? You are? High five!!
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