Urban Planning Facts

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

There are no rental cars in Bermuda.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!

In South Korea, 'women-only' parking spaces are being introduced which are bigger and marked by pink skirts.

Some birds in cities have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts in order to ward off parasites, as burnt nicotine works as an insecticide to ward off mites, lice, and fleas.

Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.

Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.

In Montreal, there's a seasonal art installation called '21 Balançoires' featuring swings that play musical notes when you swing on them—and the music only harmonizes when strangers swing together.

In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.

There are more people living in London (8.3m) than the whole of Denmark (5.6m).