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When Moving Forward Digs Up The Past
In London and Paris, two recent construction projects have been held up for macabre reasons: hundreds or thousands…
2015-06-22
Why Sustainable Cities Are Centres Of Culture And Purpose
Cities have long been centers of innovation and economic might, and the information economy has coincided with a…
2015-06-22
How The Right Signs Point To The Right Way To Success
Street signs, airport signs, signs in shopping malls and railway stations: they’re all around us, but we only…
2015-06-22
Our Elders Who Built Our Great Cities Deserve Better
Too many urban spaces are daunting to older people. But Lyon and Manchester show that they needn’t be.…
2015-06-19
How Civic Commons In Philly Makes It More Attractive
With an initiative titled “Reimagining the Civic Commons,” Philadelphia has attracted $11 million from the William Penn Foundation…
2015-06-19
Sustainability Should Take Priority Over Growth
The WorldWatch Institute, an independent research organization that focuses on energy, resource and environmental issues, released State of…
2015-06-19
How Transit Mismanagement Drives Poverty
Trains of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) are “five times more deadly” than those in other countries, an…
2015-06-19
Building Infrastructure That Cleans The Air
Barcelona is building a traffic bridge out of pollution-neutralizing concrete. Chicago has paved a road with it. Could…
2015-06-18
How New Technology Is A Useful Tool For Urban Safety
Is “Life Paint” a helpful new technology, or a dubious marketing ploy? There’s no shortage of products…
2015-06-18
How To Raise Awareness About Population Explosion
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to…
2015-06-18
Why Cloud Computing Is Ugly, But Clouds Are Sublime
Hey, that cloud looks like a baobab tree! And that one over there looks like a giant slice…
2015-06-18
Smart Alerting : Shelter From The Data Storm
Here’s a fundamental paradox of today’s massively connected IT systems: the more information available to you, the less…
2015-06-17
How Big Data May Help Sustain A Sustainable City
Global IT firm Hitachi Consulting has been chosen to build a first-of-its-kind Big Data platform for Denmark’s capital…
2015-06-17
10 States With Enormous Tax Rates
Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”…
2015-06-17
More Trees Means Better Streets Means Amazing Cities
CITIES CAN IMPACT GLOBAL WARMING BY COOLING THEMSELVES WITH TREES Cities get hotter than surrounding areas due to…
2015-06-17
A Case Study In Flawed Street Design
The New Urbanist neighborhood of Stapleton, Colorado, suffers from compromised planning standards. The above picture shows an example…
2015-06-16
Three Ways To Transform Age-Old Town Hall Meetings
The common refrain from many citizens, from large metropolises to small rural farming communities, is that government leaders…
2015-06-16
City Public Toilets : The True Measure Of Hygiene
Reacting to the poor offering of public amenities across major cities, apps like Airpnp – which allows users…
2015-06-16
Sacred Architecture To Take Your Breath Away
Before our modern definitions of civilizations, a place and its people evolves from a being a simple village…
2015-06-16
How Tech Hub Cities Serve The Public Good
The cities with the strongest markets for civic innovation are also the cities where entrepreneurs believe strong connections…
2015-06-15
Get Yourself Fit In These 10 Cities
Samir Becic 4 times Number 1 Fitness Trainer in the world and his Health Fitness Revolution team did…
2015-06-15
How Wind Turbines Foster Health Problems
In a radio interview, Prime Minister Tony Abbott raised what he described as the “potential health impacts” of…
2015-06-15
The World’s Major Cities Were Made Of Food
In America, the word “brunch” conjures up visions of eggs benedict and bagels and lox. But, broadly speaking,…
2015-06-15
13 Things The World Needs To Thank London For
The world has a lot of reasons to give thanks to London, not least of which is the…
2015-06-13
How Warsaw’s District Heating System Keeps The City Clean
The almost complete destruction of the Polish capital during the second world war allowed for the construction of…
2015-06-13
From Shanty To Swanky : The Wildly Differing Prices Of Property In Mumbai
Danish Siddiqui’s photographs document the huge disparity in the price of finding somewhere to live in Mumbai, one…
2015-06-13
How Public Feedback Transformed Auckland’s Bus Shelters
Auckland bus shelters are set for a new design following public feedback. During July and August 2014 Auckland…
2015-06-13
SF Bay Area’s Bike Share Set For Expansion
Bay Area Bike Share is poised for a tenfold expansion in the region. The expansion to more than…
2015-06-13
Amazing and Challenging U.S. Cities To Launch A Business
“When you think of the prime place to start a business, what springs to mind? If it has…
2015-06-12
Fast Food Haven In The U.S.
Did your hometown make the list? Read on to find out. Not everyone eats fast or fast…
2015-06-12
Enjoying Mobility In Stuttgart
Stuttgart has set an aspiring goal when it comes to mobility on two wheels: the long term, the…
2015-06-12
Lifestyle Centre : Just A Hipper Shopping Mall?
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose’s Santana Row covers 42 acres. Its dense, high-end retailing,…
2015-06-12
L.A. Glamour From Sunrise To Sunset
Gavin Heffernan shot this exhaustive time-lapse of Los Angeles. His camera cuts from distant vantage points of…
2015-06-12
Dan Doctoroff and Google Announce Sidewalk Labs
NEW YORK – Dan Doctoroff, the former CEO of Bloomberg LP and Deputy Mayor of Economic Development and…
2015-06-11
Pioneering Enterprise Network Telephony In Adelaide City
Pioneering enterprise network telephony helps metropolitan council reduce costs by 75 percent and deliver anywhere, anytime working. Adelaide…
2015-06-11
New Design Makes Its Way To Antarctic Research
The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, the first fully-relocatable research station, was designed by Hugh Broughton Architects with…
2015-06-11
‘Bikes vs. Cars’ Wages The Wrong War
Toronto politician Rob Ford is always good for a laugh, if only in recognition of how far…
2015-06-11
How Glasgow Is Reinventing Itself With Data
What will the city of the future look like? Like a lot of cities, Glasgow has an idea.…
2015-06-11
10 Best Cities For Families
Choosing where to raise your children is one of the most important housing decisions you’ll make. The right…
2015-06-10
World Class Sustainable And Unique Building Designs
The 12 world class sustainable building designs are featured in a new infographic created by Classic Window Replacements…
2015-06-10
How A Giant Windwheel Turbine Can Be Your New Home
Instead of tilting at windmills, how about living in one? The Dutch Windwheel is a giant proposed wind…
2015-06-10
The Proof Is In The Clouds
In a few weeks, you may get to see evidence the atmosphere is changing — if you’re lucky.…
2015-06-10
Why Sweden’s Congestion Pricing Program Is A Huge Success
“Traffic is down 12 percent in Gothenburg, and transit use is on the rise.” When you think of…
2015-06-10
A City Where Garbage Is Not
In San Francisco, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade—as long as the lemons end up in…
2015-06-09
Amazing Foods Make Amazing Cities
Food is a powerful draw – gourmand travellers will roam far and wide for a taste of the…
2015-06-09
How To Make Infrastructure Sexy
INFRASTRUCTURE IS VITAL, BUT TOTALLY BORING. ONE CHICAGO AGENCY TRIES TO SPICE THINGS UP WITH DATA VIZ. Infrastructure…
2015-06-09
Designing Google’s HQ Like Designing Software
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels, the company’s new California headquarters are glass domes set in a…
2015-06-09