Developers poured money and resources into misguided city-building projects that now sit empty, the Huffington Post reports. 

Despite central Madrid’s foot-friendly makeover, the average Madrileño scoffs at walking to work, school or the bar, CityMetric reports. 

A spring 2015 conference hosted by the Project for Public Spaces will showcase how Barcelona has spread 43 public markets across the city’s neighborhoods.

The city will use its prize money to create a digital community designed to serve as a support network for elderly citizens, according to Bloomberg Philanthropies. 

A technology touted as a miracle for cities may be less useful and more costly than originally thought, Tod Newcombe reports in Government Technology. 

Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Barcelona have also experimented with the idea of escalators as public transport.