canada Canada's housing market is slowly but surely imploding, and Canadians are more exposed than the US was in 2008 Cory Doctorow

Business Regulating Airbnb drives down local rents (as well as house prices) Cory Doctorow

petard Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica Cory Doctorow

urban theory The great e-bike experiment: the data Dave Tolnai

late stage capitalism Uber is a "bezzle," doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO Cory Doctorow

makers $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Toronto 2033: science fiction writers imagine the city of the future Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Billboards are using sensors to identify, target and track individuals Cory Doctorow

education US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations Cory Doctorow

surveillance ICE and the DEA have secretly hidden cameras in some streetlights Cory Doctorow

videos Bruce Sterling on architecture, design, science fiction, futurism and involuntary parks Cory Doctorow

san francisco San Francisco spends $3.1m/year on homeless toilets and $65m/year cleaning up poop Cory Doctorow

urban theory Study blames Uber/Lyft for San Francisco traffic, Uber/Lyft blames Amazon, propose surge pricing Cory Doctorow

makers Homeless people in San Francisco are hotwiring electric scooters Cory Doctorow

books Aw, shit: New York's McNally Jackson Books is closing its Nolita store Cory Doctorow

urban theory New York's luxury real-estate market is crashing Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism 20% of New York retail space is sitting vacant Cory Doctorow

usausausa America's big cities are increasingly home to people living in their cars Cory Doctorow

Business The housing market in America's most expensive cities is imploding Cory Doctorow

nsa Which windowless American buildings are secret AT&T/NSA listening posts? Cory Doctorow