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// 5 stories · last updated June 2026

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Why Vienna stops paving its streets

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 …

Tobias Hager·8 min·Vienna

Bucharest’s architects of refusal

A loose collective of Romanian architects has spent two years simply refusing public commissions they consider environmentally indefensible. The city is starting to listen. The architects are starting to lose work. Bo…

Tobias Hager·1 min·Bucharest