Gardens Of Sharing In Denver’s Less Fortunate
Gardeners in Denver often look to help the homeless and less fortunate. There are several ways for them…
2016-02-06
And Cool, Intelligent Farms, Right Under Our Feet …
The “world’s first underground urban farm” is set to start selling herbs and salads grown 33 m (108…
2016-02-05
Expansive Farm, High Up In The Sky …
The US city of Louisville, KY, is set to become home to a major new vertical farm. The…
2016-02-05
Why The Downward Spiral Of Inequality Is Becoming Harder To Fix
Why does economic inequality—as opposed to just poverty—matter? There are a lot of reasons, but a big one…
2016-02-05
A Vision Of Transforming Industrial Bareness To Eco-Villages
A landscape architect proposes exurban shipping districts you’d actually want to visit (or live in). Environmentalists have been…
2016-02-05
Are Cities Really An Engine For Jobs & Prosperity?
City Observatory cataloged a series of indicators that point to the the growing economic strength of city centers—including on…
2016-02-03
California’s Energy Utilities Finally Serious With Electric Cars
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a pilot program that will see public utility San Diego…
2016-02-03
A Solution To Youth Unemployment Path In Africa & The World
Today’s Africa faces a complex mix of challenges and promise. With almost 200 million youth ages 15 to…
2016-02-03
The Tightrope Dance Of Our Agricultural Farming
Human use of land for crops and herds has completely altered the world’s landscapes. A new field of…
2016-02-03
Why We Have Ruined Nature In Cities Too Much
The federal environment and acting cities minister, Greg Hunt, on Tuesday pledged to increase the number of trees…
2016-02-03
Top Flea Markets In Hong Kong For The Lunar New Year
In Hong Kong, you can dress a bride, redo a house and amuse a child one street at…
2016-02-02
Why Your Dutch Holiday May Just Become More Than About Mills & Tulips
The new Waterline Museum near Utrecht reveals another side to the Netherlands’ mastery of waterways and coastlines. For…
2016-01-29
Rome Was Not Built In A Day, Then & In The Future
The Italian capital has a logistical nightmare: juggling ambitious restoration projects at the Colosseum and the Porta Maggiore…
2016-01-29
Could This Be The Best Cities To Live In The USA?
Livability’s third annual ranking of the best small to mid-sized cities in the U.S. They ranked more than 2,000 cities…
2016-01-29
The City As Cause & Cure For Its Own Sickness
Do cities make us sick? A century ago, it went without saying that they did. With their teeming…
2016-01-28
Top Celebrity Chefs Feasts For Chinese New Year & Valentine’s Day
Looking for somewhere special to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day? Marina Bay Sands’ celebrity chef restaurants…
2016-01-28
A Return To Rural Roots In The Suburbs
A new “agrihood” in California’s Central Valley reworks a former tomato-canning plant into an aspirational suburb. The Cannery,…
2016-01-26
A Pavilion From Out Of This World Looks Like A Sea Shell
Brooklyn, NYC-based StudioKCA has constructed an interesting pavilion that reflects the trajectory of satellites orbiting the Earth. Commissioned…
2016-01-26
Beautiful Cities With Gardens Or Lovely Gardens With Cities
The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper”…
2016-01-26
The Top 6 Best Healthcare Worker Cities In USA
Find out where to move if you’re looking for a health-care job. Health care is the largest private…
2016-01-26
The Top 10 Reasons USA Is Becoming A Big Brother Society
In 1949, Eric Blair, known by the pen name of George Orwell, published 1984; a novel that has shown…
2016-01-25
A Googley View Of The World’s Largest Railroad Model
Remember when Google Street View only allowed you to explore streets? Since its launch in 2007, the service has…
2016-01-25
A Tale Of Many Cities & The Impacts Of Bikesharing
Public bikesharing has emerged as one of the latest transportation innovations, transforming North American cities and providing people…
2016-01-22
Cool Teen Hobbies : Not Partying But Changing The World
Everyday we hear about new inventions and innovations, but we rarely hear about the people behind them. More…
2016-01-22
The 8 Best Future Vehicles For 2016
The continued minituarization of electronics, advances in materials technology, a growing emphasis on clean, sustainable modes of transport…
2016-01-21
Why Old Ways Of Getting Around Cities Is Clashing With Current Realities
Cities are complex systems. One visible artery of the city is traffic – the cluster of moving people…
2016-01-21
Why Transit-Oriented Developments Do Not Need Transit
Urban planners have invested a lot of energy in the idea of transit-oriented developments (TODs). Developing dense housing…
2016-01-20
No Surprise! World Building Of The Year 2015 In Singapore
A vertical village in Singapore has been name the World Building of the Year 2015 at the World…
2016-01-20
Minimum Parking Slot Per Building Is Bad For Cities, Simply Bad
Ottawa’s 90-second PSA concisely outlines the damage of a policy set in the past. Of all the cities…
2016-01-20
Denmark’s Record-Breaking Year For The Win(d)
Windy year helps Denmark to produce 42% of its electricity from wind turbines, despite two major windfarms being…
2016-01-19
Amazing Strolls From Manhattan To Jersey City And Back
Manhattan isn’t far from Jersey City as the crow flies, but because of the Hudson River, moving from…
2016-01-19
The Force Awakens With Beautiful Architecture In Chicago
Following a lawsuit, a significant redesign, and not a little controversy, the Chicago City Council has finally succumbed…
2016-01-19
A Complete View Of A City’s Carbon Footprint
By focusing on emissions from goods consumed in a city, Berkeley researchers paint a more accurate picture. The…
2016-01-18
Getting Lost In Singapore’s Street Names? Discover Here.
The Street and Building Names Board was only established in 2003. In the past, street-naming fell to the Municipal…
2016-01-18
The Future Of Urban Farms In Shipping Containers
In shipping containers, urban farmers can grow a large yield in small spaces. The gray lot under the…
2016-01-15
How Cities And Obesity Are Intertwined
In a city like Lausanne, Switzerland, urban planning could be both a cause of and solution to obesity.…
2016-01-15
To Get Less Drunken Violence, Design Better Cities
Tragically, another young life has been lost in an alleged one-punch assault, this time in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.…
2016-01-15
Why Singapore Wants To Attract Leading Healthcare Companies
As growing and aging populations across the world test the limits of their national healthcare systems, Singapore has…
2016-01-15
First Bite Makes You Enjoy Food & Life More
In 2004, the kindergartens of Jyväskylä, a lakeside city in Finland, received funding to give all children aged…
2016-01-14
How Philly Made An All-In Bet On In-Sink Disposals
A trashy plan to create good gas. Between an in-sink garbage disposal and heaping food scraps into the…
2016-01-14
Discover The Clearest (Obvious?) Link Why More Carparks Means More Cars
Long after it was painfully clear that cigarettes caused cancer, big tobacco companies maintained that no such link…
2016-01-14
Discover The Next Design Capital Of Asia
In a worldwide economy that’s increasingly idea-driven, design has found its place as an important enabler to promote…
2016-01-13
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
2016-01-13
How Open Government May Start With Citizens Teaching Governments
Brazil’s largest city is embarking on an ambitious experiment to educate its public employees on the benefits of…
2016-01-13
BIG’s Cool, Green, Mountainous Apartments Set In National Park
Designing a building to be sympathetic to its surroundings can be tricky, especially when the building is to…
2016-01-13
You Need A New Relationship With Urban Noise
You know the drill – walking through the city alone you have your headphones on, your music playing;…
2016-01-13
You Must Discover These Top 10 Secret Countries
Setting up a country is a tricky business. You can have your own army, passports, territory, head of…
2016-01-11
How To Clean Oceans, Literally : Turn Impossible To Possible
Scooping up all the plastic waste in the world’s oceans would be a massive undertaking given that scientists…
2016-01-11