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Uber app on smartphone in front of taxi

Technology

Uber hasn’t taken taxi drivers’ jobs but has slashed their wages

The arrival of Uber in US cities hasn't reduced the number of traditional taxi drivers, but it has cut their hourly wages by up to 10 per cent, say economists

News

Fox eating from bin

Life

There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

News

Plants growing in concrete elevated space

Life

Islands in the sky used as Noah's ark for threatened plants

News

Hexagonal square in city

Humans

Honeycomb-shaped streets would stop traffic from getting sticky

News

Conceptual city on US-Mexico border

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

Culture

Scene-setter of a New York skyline at night with whooshy lights

Humans

The White House talks AI, but does it understand?

Culture

Close up of a white-footed tamarin

Life

City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol

News

Green expanse surrounded by the buildings of Newcastle upon Tyne

Humans

Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe

Culture

Forever, Ai Weiwei, is a sculpture made of bicycles

Life

Megacities Asia challenges the utopian view of smart cities

Culture

Lizard on reddish wall

Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

Anole lizards have a talent for evolution, and it's not confined to the wild – urban-dwellers have evolved new traits to help them climb windows and walls

News

Life

Los Angeles launches hunt for unknown species hiding in cities

News

Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

CultureLab

Earth

Take a detour to improve traffic for everyone else

News

Technology

Skyscrapers of the future will be held together with glue

Opinion