What one small design choice makes a neighbourhood feel welcoming to you?
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For me it's benches that face each other instead of a wall. You can tell a place wants people to talk.
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A cross-border river cleanup is quietly becoming a model for cooperation between rival neighbours
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Sometimes the thing that gets people to talk isn't a summit. It's a shared mess downstream that neither side can fix alone.
Why does every country's government website look like it was built in a different decade?
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A world tour of public-service web design
From Estonia's slick digital state to portals that still demand Internet Explorer.
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The sound that instantly tells you you're home — what is it where you live?
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For me it's the 6am rice-vendor loudspeaker on a motorbike. I complained about it for years. Now I'd miss it terribly.
People outside the US: what everyday app do you use that Americans have never heard of?
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Curious how fragmented the 'everyone uses this' apps really are once you cross a border.