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// 5 stories · last updated July 2026
In a quiet revolt against the asphalt monoculture, Vienna is rolling out unsealed lanes, planted curbs and rain-fed gardens. The Stadt Wien is not waiting for federal climate-adaptation money, it is rewriting its own …
At two in the afternoon on the last day of July 2024, a Greenpeace technician points a thermographic camera at the granite of the Plaza Mayor and the screen returns a number close to sixty-three degrees. A few hundred…
On a wet evening in the Navigli, the queue outside a dark kitchen is not made of diners. It is made of riders — a dozen of them, straddling bicycles and battered scooters, thumbs hovering over the same app, waiting fo…
On a side street in the 11th arrondissement, just east of where the boulevards thin out into the working grain of the city, someone has been at the foot of a plane tree with a trowel. The square metre of earth that us…
On a quiet stretch of the Bulevardul Magheru, between a phone shop and a shuttered cinema, a small painted disc the size of a saucer sits at eye level on an interwar façade. It is red, and it means what everyon…