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Livability’s third annual ranking of the best small to mid-sized cities in the U.S. They ranked more than 2,000 cities…
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Do cities make us sick? A century ago, it went without saying that they did. With their teeming…
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Looking for somewhere special to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day? Marina Bay Sands’ celebrity chef restaurants…
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,…
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…
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The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Everyday we hear about new inventions and innovations, but we rarely hear about the people behind them. More…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Windy year helps Denmark to produce 42% of its electricity from wind turbines, despite two major windfarms being…
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Manhattan isn’t far from Jersey City as the crow flies, but because of the Hudson River, moving from…
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Following a lawsuit, a significant redesign, and not a little controversy, the Chicago City Council has finally succumbed…
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…
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The Street and Building Names Board was only established in 2003. In the past, street-naming fell to the Municipal…
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…
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In a city like Lausanne, Switzerland, urban planning could be both a cause of and solution to obesity.…
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Tragically, another young life has been lost in an alleged one-punch assault, this time in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.…
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…
The Top 10 Cities For Love & Romance
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In 2004, the kindergartens of Jyväskylä, a lakeside city in Finland, received funding to give all children aged…
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…
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Long after it was painfully clear that cigarettes caused cancer, big tobacco companies maintained that no such link…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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A seven metre tall tower designed by Daan Roosegaarde filters dirty air, releasing bubbles of smog free air.…
You Will Be Inspired By (Or Envy) This Small & Beautiful Home In Netherlands
Dutch designer and tiny house enthusiast Daniel Venneman, who previously bought us the DIY Hermit House, has recently…
How A Large-Scale Solar Deployment May Look Like
Researchers are examining measures to ensure a reliable future power system. Deploying solar power at the scale needed…
8 Technology Predictions To Watch Out For In 2016
The technology predictions for the year ahead, including drones, robots, driverless cars and virtual reality. 1. Virtual reality…
How To Turn Bland Infra To Something Beautifully Good
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of…
Top 13 Hottest American Cities To Watch Out For
We’ve found the 15 hottest US cities for 2016, all of which will be booming next year thanks…
Why Nanotech’s Best Benefits In Africa Begins With Our Waste
A cheap, easy to maintain, “green” toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity and…
How To Light Cities In The Future Without Ruining It
From the medieval candle to phosphorescent trees and glow-in-the-dark concrete, Daryl Mersom charts the trajectory of urban light,…
The Internet Predicts Interesting 2016 Events
It’s the end of 2015, and many are using the occasion to look back on the major moments…
Why Cities Rise Fast And Falls Faster
Combined challenge of climate change and population growth puts premium on rapid urbanisation ‘in a way that’s not…
It Is Obvious! Climate Change Needs Broadest Collaboration
To achieve the kind of environmentally sustainable future we will want our grandchildren to inherit, we need everyone…
You Must Know These 5 Economic Predictions For 2016
2015 has been a great year for the American economy, and that momentum should continue through 2016. The…
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“Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer an enticing prospect.” But who is in the driving…