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Florida is suing a company that scores homes based on their estimated risk from floods, storms and wildfires, alleging it hurt homeowners bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh is planning a major renovation of the Heinz Architectural Center, the museum’s forum for design. To reimagine the space, the museum tapped AD—WO, a New York-based studio known principally for its artful exhibition designs. Read the latest Design Edition newsletter: bloom.bg/4iitsjn 📷: AD–WO/Carnegie Museum of Art

A 130-meter ferry powered by 250 metric tons of batteries is the world's biggest electric passenger vessel, and ushering in a new era for clean shipping bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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

Thousands of people once lived in alley homes in Washington, DC. The climate-conscious design studio BLDUS shows the promise of reviving them. Read more: bloom.bg/4ifbtZE 📷: Alex Kent/Bloomberg

Look out, red and amber lights. Autonomous vehicles may soon bring another color to America’s roads 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…

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

Adept at both neoclassical flair and drab concrete, architect Josef Kaiser defined the surprising Cold War style of East Germany's architecture. Read more: bloom.bg/4zS2Zis 📷: Schnepp Renou

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…

“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