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What The Collapse Of Ancient Capitals Can Teach Us About The Cities Of Today
Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable.…
2015-02-07
Communities Of The Future Will Be Organised on Transportation
The era of transit-oriented development and “networked livable communities” has arrived. The Great Recession has fundamentally changed the…
2015-02-05
10 Techniques For Making Cities More Walkable
In Jeff Speck’s excellent new book, Walkable City, he suggests that there are ten keys to creating walkability.…
2015-01-29
World’s Biggest Cities Become Even Bigger
The world’s mega-cities are merging to form vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and…
2015-01-28
How To Survive A Heatwave
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. With summer still months away, an…
2022-07-12
Connected City Streets Mean Healthier Residents And Communities
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world are rediscovering the value of walkable and…
2020-09-07
The Design Of Dissent: How City Public Spaces Can Make Or Break A Civil Protest
Depending on how it’s built, urban spaces have the power to mobilise or impede protests. “Global Protest Wave”…
2020-06-10
Megacity Slums Are Incubators Of Disease – But Coronavirus Response Isn’t Helping The Billion People Who Live In Them
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of…
2020-05-21
Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Start In And Spread From The Edges Of Cities
Emerging infectious disease has much to do with how and where we live. The ongoing coronavirus is an…
2020-02-18
Here Are The Real Boundaries Of American Metropolises, Decided By An Algorithm
How is the U.S. actually split geographically? When we think about where we live, usually our ideas start with…
2018-10-15
An Intriguing Sci-Fi Vision Of A Megacity
Artist Olalekan Jeyifous creates fantastical, futuristic images of Lagos, Nigeria, to get people thinking about how we live…
2018-10-15
Why US Public Transportation Is So Bad — And Why Americans Don’t Care
The US has bad public transit, but you probably already know that. While some cities do have impressive…
2018-09-28
Why Cities Rule The World
Cities are the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization — and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place.…
2018-09-19
Mitigating Road Risks In Growing Cities
As cities grow, the pressure on roads and its many users grows with it. According to the UN,…
2018-08-21
Cities Change How Much It Rains & Where Storms Hit
Urban development changes storm patterns and rainfall amounts, two new papers suggest. The research highlights the need for…
2018-06-28
The Challenges Of Keeping The Masses Moving Up, Down & Across
Cities worldwide face the problems and possibilities of “volume”: the stacking and moving of people and things within…
2018-06-09
We Need Bigger Cities, But We Also Need Unique Cities
“If you don’t want processed food, why do you want processed cities?” asks architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. Think of…
2018-04-17
What Palestinians Can Teach Us About Popular Resistance
The people of Gaza rose up not because of Palestinian political factions, but despite them. The ongoing popular…
2018-04-13
How Long Can The World’s ‘Least Sustainable’ City Survive?
Set deep in the Valley of the Sun, the lush and sprawling ‘megapolis’ has a problem – the…
2018-03-23
Why Isn’t Australia An Active Travel Mecca?
Australian city planners are seeking ways to make cities better for walking and cycling. “Walkability and cyclability are attractive and “green”…
2018-03-21
In Defense Of The Small City
Everyone, including the president, thinks struggling Americans should just move to places like New York. They’re wrong. The…
2018-03-12
Not The End Of The World: The Return Of Dubai’s Ultimate Folly
Underwater bedrooms, ‘Lohan Island’ and snow all year round – a decade after it was scuppered by the…
2018-02-16
7 Principles For Building Better Cities
More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected…
2018-02-14
What Our Cities Need To Do To Be Truly Liveable For All
Urban planners, governments and developers are increasingly interested in making cities “liveable”. But what features contribute to liveability?…
2017-10-23
Smart Cities Objectives & Tactics: Work Smarter Not Harder
As the world’s biggest cities continue to sprawl with many millions of new people, they’ll look to many…
2017-09-27
Chinese Architecture: Spectacular, Or Eccentric?
China is no stranger to contemporary architecture that boggles the mind or appears to side-step common sense, from…
2017-07-14
As Trump Dumps Paris Accord, U.S Cities Must Now Take Its Own Lead
Build dense. Build near transit. Rinse and repeat. President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate…
2017-06-08
Cities Redefining What Densely Populated Means
Cities are all about density – groups of strangers agreeing to spend their lives in close proximity, whether…
2017-05-23
The Top 10 Greenest Cities in America
The Spring Equinox is behind us and the days of lazy picnics in the park are nearly here.…
2017-05-12
The World’s Greenest City Out Of Dreams, Oil, Pearls, And Sand.
A decade ago Dubai had one of the largest ecological footprints of any city in the world. By…
2017-04-12
Are You Aware Of The Low-Cost Solution to Traffic?
Instead of building expensive roads, we should be building housing that limits how far people have to drive…
2017-03-13
Smart Cities Is Not Enough, It Needs To Be Smarter Or Else
As a planet, we have some serious climate targets to meet in the coming years. The Paris Agreement,…
2016-12-16
Which City Do You Think Is More Dense: Paris Or New York City?
It’s not just because they’re old. Which city do you think is more dense: Paris or New York…
2016-11-04
Memphis’ Greens It Up, From Getting It Wrong To Doing It Right
Shelby Farms Park and the Shelby Farms Greenline demonstrate a civic interest in landscape design not seen in…
2016-09-23
The 10 Best College Towns In The U.S. Year 2016
While the term “college town” may bring to mind solo cup-littered parties and riotous football games, there’s far more to these…
2016-09-16
Renewing City To Core With Arts School, From Sydney And Beyond
National Art School (NAS) interim director Michael Lynch has committed to defending its continued independence from the University…
2016-08-04
35 Ways To Experience America’s 35 Obnoxiously Rich City Suburbs
We’re gonna take a guess: if you’re checking to see if your town is on this list, you…
2016-08-04
Edmonton : When Your City Being Destroyed Becomes A Privilege
Forget New York, let alone Tokyo: as reader Greg Whistance-Smith points out, the wildly popular Japanese anime show…
2016-07-14
Where The Sea Meets The Sky Is Not The Horizon
Airports need a lot of space, but in the places most in need of air connections — islands…
2016-07-08
Stop Detaching A City’s Life & Fate With The Planet’s
Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope.…
2016-06-15
Why The Price Of Convenience & Technology Is Our Privacy
Futuristic supermarkets promise customers the truth about their shopping, says Prof Carlo Ratti, but what are the retailers…
2016-06-13
Discover A Tale Of Cities, We Missed & Unheard
To complement our 50-part series on the history of urbanisation, our readers shared fascinating stories of the cities…
2016-05-31
The Top 10 Most Admirable US Cities For Working Parents
There are record numbers of stressed, tired and rushed parents juggling kids and work around the world. Here…
2016-05-02
Give London’s Citizen The Freedom To Live Well
A city will struggle if it can no longer house the people who teach, clean, nurse, cook, police,…
2016-03-11
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears
STOCKHOLM — Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba…
2016-03-04
15 Destinations To Inspire Your Next Runner’s High
For traveling fitness enthusiasts, sneaking in a jog while sightseeing is a treat of sorts. Transform your runner’s…
2016-03-02
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