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City life can be incredibly stressful, and it appears humans aren’t the only urban inhabitants affected by the tension. According to a recent study, birds feel it, too.

New York City has an alternate universe: a 250-acre garden in the Bronx, where century-old pink and white Magnolia trees thrive.

How green is your city? How does it match up to other cities? Is it making progress in becoming more sustainable?

Bicycles are essential to urban living. Unfortunately, they aren’t convenient. Those who rely on bikes to get around are forced to purchase heavy locks, expensive frames and bulky tracking systems in order to match one’s busy lifestyle. Now there’s a complete solution for all your city transportation needs.

A warm egg, white shell almost translucent, plops into the wire mesh gutter and rolls forward. There is no let-up in the clucking din of the 16,000 other chickens in cages that stretch to the far end of the shed. They won’t survive more than a couple of years here, but their feces will be shovelled up for fertiliser and their eggs sold on for a few rupees each.

Luis Pons, 41, is a relatively new photographer who has gained the trust of many of New York City’s most pre-eminent ballet dancers within six months.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the winning design for a project to protect part of the Lower East Side from future floods.

Jane Jacobs is well known as an activist, an urban theorist, and for her book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961) where she introduced the concepts of eyes on the street and social capital.

The highest concentration of heroin abuse from across the nation can be found in and around Chicago.