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What’s The Perfect Size For A City?
The world’s cities are sprawling over their boundaries, fragmenting into smaller parts run by competing regional governments. But…
2015-06-26
Are Vertical Villages Bad For Cities
The modern skyscraper is being designed with an ever-increasing range of features – from shops and offices to…
2015-06-25
Housing Cost Myth Of New York City
New York City consists of over 325 neighborhoods. But few New Yorkers include more than a handful on…
2015-06-25
The Future Of Tech At Cities Of The Future
As witnessed in Silicon Valley over the last two decades, Tech industry growth impacts housing values and creates…
2015-06-24
How Smells Of The City Can Now Be Seen
There are many ways to map a city: a basic street map, a neighborhood breakdown, by demographics. Now,…
2015-06-24
Why Smart Eyewears Will Be The Future Of Wearables
Very recently, Intel completed the acquisition of Recon Instruments, maker of the new, critically acclaimed Recon Jet™ smart…
2015-06-23
Journey Through Nostalgia, Through Jaipur
A day when two completely different people living in two different cities decided to bump into each other…
2015-06-23
How Often Do You Experience Street Harassment?
How you feel about street harassment can depend a lot on where you’re from. If you are…
2015-06-23
Why Cities Can Learn From Another Even When They Differ
No two cities are alike. Though they might share the same geography or even the same population numbers,…
2015-06-23
Internet Infrastructure Field Guide In New York
Many people don’t think about the physical, tangible framework that allows them to surf the web, but a…
2015-06-23
Wearables Are Not As Good As They Seem To Be
You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now.…
2015-06-22
Discovering The Simple Basics Of Pedestrian Behaviour
Our sidewalk interactions are “fundamentally anticipatory in nature,” according to scientists. Big city sidewalks can feel like an…
2015-06-22
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
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
Battery Revolution Is Exciting, Remember They Pollute Too
The recent unveiling by Tesla founder Elon Musk of the low-cost Powerwall storage battery is the latest in…
2015-06-15
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
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
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