CityLab Weekly

Will a Court Order Actually Stop Trump’s Ballroom?

Also this week: Lessons from past oil crises, and what it takes to count 1.4 billion people.
US President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the proposed East Wing of the White House while speaking to members of the media on Air Force One on March 29.Photographer: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

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This week, Seattle opened the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge, connecting downtown to suburbs across Lake Washington. The project is a historic engineering feat that required a host of technological innovations, which we wrote about in January.