Curbed?s annual nod to writers and outlets who ran the year?s best stories on cities, people, and trends ?Tis the season for best-of lists. We?ve rounded up some of our favorites from Curbed.com and Curbed NY, and now it?s time to tip our hats to the stories we most enjoyed reading on other sites in 2017. Have a favorite we missed" Chime in with your recommendations in the comments section.

Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101 by Margalit Fox for The New York Times
There is almost no one else we?d rather hang out with than Frances Gabe (RIP), the quippy visionary behind the world?s only self-cleaning house: a modest bungalow outside of Portland, Oregon, which was patented in 1984 and contained nearly 70 inventions. Her model?once described as ?basically a giant dishwasher??was intended to relieve women of the drudgery of housecleaning. In a year of reckoning around gender roles, Gabe?s lifelong purpose (?Housework is a thankless, unending job?) seems especially prescient. ?Kelsey Keith Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich by Evan Osnos for The New Yorker
Safe to say we?re all pretty fascinated by ?preppers,? people who are getting a jumpstart on planning for how they?ll survive in case civilization collapses. (Last year, we wrote about a trend in safe rooms and bunkers; we?ve also covered a high-end doomsday suburb in Texas and read about survival moms.) But Osnos?s in-depth account of ultra-wealthy tech honchos??brogrammers,? if you wil...