Friday Funny

Gentrification has been described as the end of the world before. But not like this.

November 6, 2015 - McSweeney's

The online customer review platform Yelp and the New York public transit system: A match made in heaven?

October 30, 2015 - CityLab

Take everything you know about the design and planning of Silicon Valley's corporate offices—but replace tech with pancakes.

October 23, 2015 - The Onion

Did you know there's a place called Point No Point, in Hansville, Washington? It's quite pretty, actually, but is that reason enough to go there?

October 9, 2015 - Quartz

The most shocking thing about the recent episode of South Park, "The City Part of Town," was that it took Cartman and company so long to poke fun at the effects of gentrification.

October 9, 2015 - Fusion

The Onion notes the effusive compassion of Pope Francis by imaging that his trip to the United States this week included an act of healing for the nation's infrastructure.

September 27, 2015 - The Onion

The streets of New York lived up to their infamous reputation this week with two viral videos that seemed almost too perfect.

September 25, 2015 - The New Yorker

The satirical site The Onion has been consistently roasting the contemporary conversation about urban living.

September 18, 2015 - The Onion

The only thing as ubiquitous as love letters are break up letters. Now it's even easier to break up with your city, using real data from the U.S. Census.

September 4, 2015 - Tiny Subversions

Maybe it's not funny in the traditional sense, but someone is surely having a laugh.

August 21, 2015 - The Guardian

If you always thought you'd fit in better in Middle Earth than Anywhere, U.S.A., a group of architects and engineers would like to give you a chance to test your theory.

August 14, 2015 - Inhabitat

A fake news report from the fake news site The Onion lampoons the American culture of excess and its disregard for environmental consequences.

August 7, 2015 - The Onion

Everyone has heard about Silver Lake, the Mission, and, of course, Brooklyn. But what about East Village, NuLu, Fondren, and Haymarket? Hipsters are everywhere! These are the top hipster neighborhoods—the Brooklyns, if you will—in all 50 states

July 31, 2015 - Thrillist

Finally a road sign that tells it like it is.

June 26, 2015 - The New Yorker

CityLab stages a humorous competition for the location of a likely-to-go-horribly-wrong tourist attraction.

June 19, 2015 - CityLab

Henry Melcher reports on a humorous response to the new renderings revealed for the future 2 WTC tower (also the future home of 21st Century Fox and News Corp), designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.

June 12, 2015 - The Architect's Newspaper

The Onion provides a new take on the "San Francisco is over" quip that has been a popular reaction to the rising cost of housing in the City by the Bay.

June 12, 2015 - The Onion

Call it gallows humor: Jon Stewart and the Daily Show get a few laughs out of the serious subject of infrastructure.

June 5, 2015 - The Daily Show

The Onion provides a fake dispatch from a city that wants lobster roll stands and high-end noodle bars on every corner, like now.

May 15, 2015 - The Onion

A McSweeney's post satirizes the obfuscations and euphemisms of public transit system announcements by finally putting things in brutally frank terms.

May 8, 2015 - McSweeny's