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Be Nice, It May Help Your City’s Economy
In some cities, the personality of its residents may play a part in economic success (or failure). Houston’s…
2016-02-27
A Foreign Policy For Global Cities?
Can and should global cities have their own foreign policy? This question was hotly debated at last year’s Chicago…
2016-02-27
Lessons Of Incremental Innovation In Southeast Asia
Having explored most of Vietnam and a small part of Cambodia, I am struck by the innovation that…
2016-02-26
From Ocean Trash To Designer City Attraction In Singapore
Did you know that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France? The amount of…
2016-02-24
Skyway Mass Transit Making Huge Impact At La Paz
Almost two years on and the teleférico to El Alto has proved a cheap and stress-free way to…
2016-02-24
A Farmers’ Market’s Journey From Serving Affluence To The Masses
Before the city became infamous for its water, residents struggled with access to healthy food. One change made…
2016-02-24
Vienna’s 7th Makes It Undeniably The Best City For Quality Of Life
Study examining socioeconomic conditions places Austrian capital at apex of index while London, Paris and New York fail…
2016-02-24
Food Waste Is A Shame! A Huge Shame! Good Thing We Have These 12.
We all heard our mothers say it when we were young, “Don’t waste your food,” or perhaps, “Take…
2016-02-23
Why Tech Firms Can & Should Do More Than Tech
For many cities, tech hubs have been a key to jump starting economic growth in the wake of…
2016-02-23
Vast Rooftop Project For A Little Idea In Greening Gotham
A 60,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse that will produce more than 500 tons of fresh vegetables a year finally opened this…
2016-02-23
How To Make Peace? Get Angry
How did a young man born into a high caste in India come to free 83,000 children from…
2016-02-23
Summer Jobs Pay More Than Pocket Money To City Teens
While East Coast cities patiently wait for winter to melt away, it’s a good time for municipal governments…
2016-02-23
More New Jobs Are In City Centers, While Employment Growth Shrinks In The Suburbs
For decades, most Americans working in metropolitan areas have gone to work outside city centers – in suburban…
2016-02-22
Ain’t It Obvious : More Driving, More Traffic Related Deaths
Data from the national traffic safety administration shows an ominous trend: traffic related deaths are up 11.3 percent for…
2016-02-19
A Limit To Urban Height In Vancouver
We don’t always have to build up to fit more people into a city. Vancouver and Seattle offer…
2016-02-18
Top 10 Places For Growing Foods In Cities In The USA
People have been growing food and raising livestock across the United States for centuries—even in cities. But it…
2016-02-18
The Anti-Patterns Of The Digitally Connected City
Popular visions of the “smart city” promise that with digital technology the power of the city “as a…
2016-02-17
Dynamism And Vibrancy In Atlanta City
For a sprawling city with the nation’s ninth-largest metro area, Atlanta is surprisingly lush with trees—magnolias, dogwoods, Southern…
2016-02-17
The Top 10 Smart Cities Consideration For A Prosperous India
The government last month revealed names of the first 20 smart cities that will get Rs 50,802 crore…
2016-02-16
The Sharing Economy Should Not Lead to City Zoning Chaos
The sharing economy is challenging the demand for land-use regulations, but they’re still necessary. We used to work…
2016-02-16
Why Mobile Internet Only Is Encouraging Inequality
For many of us, access to the Internet through a variety of means is a given. I can…
2016-02-16
Changing The Signs For Changing Times
It still prefers triangles even though the world uses octagons. Japan is considering a revamp of its stop…
2016-02-15
The Impacts Of An Aging World Population
Overpopulation isn’t something this generation has to worry about much, but under-population? That’s a very real problem that…
2016-02-15
The Top 10 Cities For The Month Of Hearts & Love
Everyone wants the kind of things that money just can’t buy — except on Valentine’s Day, otherwise known…
2016-02-12
Why The Idea Of Simply Reading In A Library Has Become Obsolete
In Seattle, a new private library — the first of its kind in a century — is based…
2016-02-10
Why Do We Keep Ignoring That Which Feeds Us?
By embracing the latest advances in connectivity, farms are reaping big benefits. What’s needed more than ever is…
2016-02-10
The Future Of London’s Garden Bridge Project Going Dry?
Jane Duncan calls for review of procurement process amid claims Thomas Heatherwick design was chosen unfairly. The project…
2016-02-10
How College Graduates Impact Local Economies
A college education has its personal advantages, but it’s critical to thriving cities as well. It’s no secret…
2016-02-09
Top 10 Reasons That Prove America’s Cities Still Care
During the holiday season, we’re all reminded to give thanks for our blessings and hopefully pay them forward.…
2016-02-08
The Best Way To Map Cities We People Can Truly Understand
A roundup of the best stories on cities and urbanism we’ve come across in the past seven days.…
2016-02-06
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
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 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