Allison Nicole Smith
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New York, NY, United States
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These Are the Best Video Games for Wannabe Urban Planners
Games like “Final Fantasy XIV,” “The Wandering Village” and “Floodland” highlight the fantastical and fundamental parts of city building. → Read More
Online shops start to charge for returns
Higher transportation, energy and labour costs have made returns more expensive, prompting sellers to change behaviour → Read More
CityLab Daily: Bedrock, USA: How Secure Are Midterm Elections?
Also today: Federal data shows the home appraisal gap is getting worse, and Hong Kong struggles to tame its housing crisis. → Read More
Taylor Swift, TV Shows Give New Life to $20 Billion Casket Industry
Titan Casket is wooing customers away from the funeral industry’s top players with affordability, convenience—and pop culture branding. → Read More
Beach Erosion, Rising Seas Threaten Amtrak’s Second-Busiest Rail Line
The scenic Pacific Surfliner trains have been halted for emergency track repairs as rail authorities grapple with the uncertain future of California’s coastal infrastructure. → Read More
Pandemic Travel Has Reached a Tipping Point
Japan’s reopening is major news, but the bigger story is more countries have ended Covid travel restrictions than those that still have them. → Read More
CityLab: The Week’s Most Popular Stories
Bloomberg Wall Street Week, hosted by David Westin, is a reinvention of the iconic Wall Street Week, which aired on PBS for over 30 years and was hosted by late financial journalist Louis Rukeyser. The one-hour program features market and geopolitical discussions with a rotating panel of influential voices including thought leaders, CEOs, policy makers and economists. → Read More
CityLab Daily: Florida’s Retirees Bore the Brunt of Hurricane Ian
Also today: A New York City proposal offers cash for spotting parking violations in bike lanes, and Sydney looks to amp up its nightlife. → Read More
CityLab Daily: How Las Vegas Plans to Reinvent Itself (Again)
Also today: Bounties for reporting bike-lane blockers, and we want to hear from you for our coming episodes of “Bedrock, USA.” → Read More
CityLab Daily: Florida Braces for Disaster From Hurricane Ian
Also today: Bangkok imposes a congestion charge as traffic returns, and the data is in for more than 20 cities’ basic income programs. → Read More
CityLab Daily: How a Tech Park Grew Into Its Own City
Also today: What new “empath units” at hospitals mean for mental-health care, and menopause support in the workplace. → Read More
CityLab Daily: Inside the Designs of Everyday Architecture
Also today: Pop-up libraries help Melbourne move on from lockdowns, and China’s digital nomads trade mega-cities for backpacker havens. → Read More
CityLab Daily: California’s New Parking Law Is a Win for Housing, Climate
Also today: Los Angeles’s plan to boost public transit ridership, and inside the world’s strictest Covid Zero city. → Read More
The Building Game That Doesn’t Let You Build
In “Sim Nimby,” would-be city-builders face an intractable foe in a video-game satire of Bay Area housing politics. → Read More
CityLab Daily: Qatar Races to Finish Prepping for the World Cup
Also today: A global push for more 15-minute cities, and food inflation is coming for your club sandwich. → Read More
CityLab Daily: New Metro Project Threatens Mumbai’s ‘Green Lung’
Also today: A multimedia ode to New York, and why Lithuania leads Europe in green building retrofits. → Read More
CityLab Daily: Calls Mount for Federal Takeover of NYC’s Rikers Island
Also today: The battle to save democracy starts at the local library, and why Berlin has a soft spot for its Soviet memorials. → Read More
A City-Building Video Game With a Giant Twist
In “The Wandering Village,” players must build a village aboard the back of an enormous creature that roams a post-apocalyptic world. → Read More
CityLab Daily: Shanghai’s Silicon Valley Faces an Uncertain Future
Also today: The fight to save the UK’s department stores, and the man helping shape New York City’s future from behind the scenes. → Read More
CityLab Daily: How to Design a Gentrification-Proof Park
Also today: Safety fears shut down Vietnam’s hottest Instagram spot, and candidates for local office hit a hostile campaign trail. → Read More