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“We have been fighting against the environment,” says the vice mayor of Novo Progresso, an Amazon town that overwhelmingly supports conservative presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Urban burial grounds from 19th century America ramp up non-mourning activities to attract new visitors — and new revenue — as norms about death change. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

A project in Chicago that seeks to obscure George Washington is one of hundreds of efforts to rethink which historical figures get memorialized. Read more: bloom.bg/4yXiS70 📷: Jon Song Photography

IndyCar is adding Barcelona to its 2027 racing calendar, marking the circuit’s first European event in nearly two decades bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Joggers, yoga classes and dog walkers are finding an unexpected home in the city: 19th century cemeteries bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Prague preserved its historic core while other European capitals rebuilt. Now billionaire-backed projects are transforming old rail yards and industrial land into entirely new neighborhoods. Read more: bloom.bg/4yZVS7q 📷: Martin Divisek/EPA/Shutterstock

New York’s City Council voted to ban horse-drawn carriages, ending a Central Park tourist staple dating to the 19th century after years of debate over the horses’ place on city streets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Two wealthy Americans are locked in a bitter dispute over the future of an ecologically rich area of Panama’s western coast bloomberg.com/news/features/…

South Africa warned that rising municipal debt poses a growing threat to public finances, as the amount owed by financially distressed town councils continues to climb and local government elections loom bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Affordable housing advocates want to rewrite Massachusetts’s minimum lot size rules, which often mandate big lots for new single-family homes. Foes see a loss of local control. Read more: bloom.bg/4yrKRKU 📷: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A new book on demolished buildings highlights Japan’s propensity to scrap and rebuild rather than renovate. Will the next generation fight harder for preservation? Read more: bloom.bg/3Ucp2RJ 📷: Paulo Fridman/Corbis Historical/Getty Images

The finest modernist architecture in Texas can be found with the corn dogs and midway games at the Texas State Fair. Read more: bloom.bg/4hPAxaM 📷: Donovan Reese/Getty Images

Boston, Cleveland and New York City are combining housing complexes with public library branches in a bid to add affordable units and boost community services. Read more: bloom.bg/4zE9sNH 📷: Jonathan Blanc/New York Public Library

After successfully disrupting Oracle’s data center plans in New Mexico, environmental activists say they’ve now got a blueprint for waging similar campaigns against hyperscalers across the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

After a century of fighting over them, US cities like New York largely abandoned their public bathrooms. That's starting to change. Read about the new book chronicling the troubled history of restroom access and how these spaces have always reflected and reinforced social inequality: bloom.bg/47sIAV4 📷: Bill Tompkins/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

Could an electric hydrofoil catamaran finally deliver a fast, quiet, clean urban ferry system? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

An exhibit on artist Isamu Noguchi highlights how his approach to open-ended play design was ahead of its time. Read more: bloom.bg/4isukBQ 📷: Fredrik Brauer

Can the most ancient of building materials compete with concrete and steel to build more climate-friendly skyscrapers? Read more: bloom.bg/4zHIJjq 📷: Tim Soar/Groupwork

Last year, the UK and EU sent 650,000 metric tons of plastic waste to COP31 host Turkey — more than they sent anywhere else. Some view the trade as too convenient to walk away from bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Could an electric hydrofoil catamaran finally deliver a fast, quiet, clean urban ferry system? Read the latest Design Edition newsletter here: bloom.bg/4dKT4Tb 📷: Courtesy of Vessev