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Copenhagen’s Cycling Innovation
From ‘green wave’ traffic lights and majestic harbour bike bridges to digital countdowns and foot
A Power Ranking Of California’s Start-Up Cities
Two MIT social scientists have developed a better way of mapping entrepreneurial quality. It seems
How Vancouver Became One Of North America’s Most Family-Friendly Cities
It took very concerted policy efforts going back to the early 1990s. If you’re a
Ancient City Ruins Warn Us About Our Urban Future
The ruins of Tikal are surrounded by a national park — 57,600 hectares of rainforest
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest
The Fading Distinction Between City And Suburb
As high-income people return to cities and urban neighbourhoods, they bring much of their suburban
Paris’s P’tit Vélib’
Vélib’, the world’s third largest bike share service, has expanded into uncharted territory last 2014: the
Science For Designers: The Meaning Of Complexity
Today’s designers seem to love using new ideas coming from science. They embrace them as
What’s The World’s Coldest City?
Yellowknife in Canada, where windchill regularly takes the temperature below -30C? Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, where
What Goes Up Does Not Come Down
We all know what architecture critic Banksy thinks about 1 World Trade Center. He infamously
What Washington, D.C., Would Look Like With Skyscrapers
Washington, D.C., has a height problem. For almost its entire history, builders in the nation’s
Rethinking High-Rise Living In New York City
Behind every great apartment building is a structural system, and in cities, it’s usually steel
Biometric Data And Smart Cities
Using information to track individuals’ behaviour and interactions in cities could be used to redesign
City Celebrations : Chinese New Year 2015 In Pictures
February 19, 2015 marked the Chinese New Year and the coming of the Year Of
Subterranean London, Adventures Beneath
Exploring the forbidden subterranean world of ghost Tube stations, Victorian sewers and disused shelters has
The Rise Of The Sensor-Based Smart City
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, is about to be flooded. Not by storms,
Property Developers Exploit Authorities, Ruining Our Cities
Affordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow
The Next-Generation Airport Is A Destination In Its Own Right
Why the new Indianapolis terminal will be a model for others to come. INDIANAPOLIS—Robert Chicas
The Network City
“Only connect,” the writer E. M. Forster said famously — and modern scientists working with
Life In Apartheid-Era South Africa
Gripping photos show what decades of segregation looked like in Nelson Mandela’s home country. South Africa’s
Christchurch: After The Earthquake, A City Rebuilt In Whose Image?
A recent international visitor to New Zealand‘s second largest city asked Coralie Winn why there
The Next Frontier In Urban Design Will Send You Underground
Twenty feet under Delancey Street in Manhattan is a trolley terminal that hasn’t been used
