Marginly.
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How a harbour town keeps its night bus
Route 9 carries six hundred passengers after midnight. Nobody wants to pay for it, and nobody can do without it.
The nine-minute city
Fifteen is the slogan. Nine is the number residents actually use when they say a neighbourhood works.
What happened to the concrete stairwell
A short ode to the part of the building where people used to meet.
A year of roof gardens in a cold city
The weather defeated most of them. The ones that survived share three habits.
The quiet economics of the corner kiosk
Margins are thin, hours are brutal, and the street would feel very different without it.
Attention is not a muscle
We keep being told to train our focus. The better question is who built the room we are trying to focus in.
The spreadsheet that ran a village
How a volunteer accountant's file became the most important piece of software in a valley of four hundred people.
Search engines learned to answer. Then we stopped asking.
When the answer arrives before the question is finished, what happens to curiosity?