Manhattan rooftops become the city's next power plant
A film from the roofs of midtown, where solar arrays, battery rooms, and building codes are quietly rewriting how the grid gets through August.
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Seoul newsroom films a week inside the algorithm
Five days with the team that decides what a recommendation system is allowed to optimise for, and the editors who audit it afterwards.
Jakarta transit agencies redraw the commuter map
Three operators, one fare, and a timetable rebuilt around the trips people actually make rather than the lines that already exist.
Bangkok summit tests a regional climate fund
Delegates arrived to argue about totals and left arguing about disbursement rules, which is usually the sign that a fund is about to become real.
Copenhagen councils open the budget to a public vote
A small share of capital spending is being handed to residents to allocate, and the arguments about how the ballot is written matter more than the amount.
Chicago factories relearn the economics of repair
Rebuilding machinery instead of replacing it was a margin decision before it was an environmental one, and the workforce maths is the harder half.
Rome hoteliers rewrite the arithmetic of a wet season
A longer shoulder season is changing what the city sells, and the smaller operators are the ones with the most to rework.
Zurich analysts rebuild the quarterly scorecard
Sustainability disclosures were bolted onto the quarterly report for a decade. Now they are being folded into the numbers the market actually reads.
Santiago observatories learn to share a crowded sky
Satellite trails are now a routine line in the observing log, and the fix is turning out to be a scheduling agreement rather than a telescope upgrade.
Osaka wards put service robots on the night round
Overnight deliveries inside hospitals and care homes are being automated first, and the rules being written now will outlast the machines.
Dublin studios turn a design brief into public policy
Service design has crept from the agency pitch deck into the statute book, and the people writing the forms are now writing the rules.
Vancouver forests become a line in the city budget
Treating the tree canopy as infrastructure rather than amenity changes who maintains it, who funds it, and what happens when it fails.