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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
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
Why Affordable Housing Still Loses Vs High-Rise In Cost
You may be surprised to hear that condos, all else equal, are more expensive than houses. You should…
2016-01-22
How Cities And Obesity Are Intertwined
In a city like Lausanne, Switzerland, urban planning could be both a cause of and solution to obesity.…
2016-01-15
Where Future Blazing Internet Meets Traditional Blazing BBQ
Midwestern cities tend to sprawl, but in Kansas City a revitalized urban core has drawn dreamers back downtown.…
2015-11-09
The 10 Best Flea Markets In France
France’s many brocantes (flea markets in french) are great places to find collectables or pick up a great…
2015-11-02
How Climate-Smart Cities Could Save The World
Green buildings and better infrastructure would not only spur economic growth but also cut carbon emissions equal to…
2015-09-24
Saving China’s Shopping Centres, One Smart Mall At A Time
In the past year, nearly half of the world’s new shopping malls were built in China – yet…
2015-09-23
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
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
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
A New Way To See The World
MATTHEW SHAW AND William Trossell document the world with lasers. When the duo founded ScanLab Projects in 2011,…
2015-06-03
Modern Cities Grow The Same Way As Ancient Ones
Scientists find that despite time and location, the productivity of settlements grows faster than their populations. There are…
2015-06-01
What Makes A City Attractive?
Is there an “art of making attractive cities”? London-based alternative education group The School of Life (founded by…
2015-05-30
What’s The Best Way To Plan A City?
A lot of municipalities want to plan for more sustainable urban growth and are applying fairly rigid urban…
2015-05-19
Megacities Might Not Save The Planet After All
YOU LEARN TO put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always…
2015-05-18
Step Inside The 10 Best Green Buildings of 2015
When the American Institute of Architects first started handing out annual awards for sustainable architecture 19 years ago,…
2015-05-15
Humanity’s Greatest Invention?
Besides being one of today’s most influential urban economists, Harvard’s Edward Glaeser is a highly sought-after city strategist,…
2015-05-11
A Cartoonist’s Vision Of A Car-Free Future
St. Paul-based cartoonist Andy Singer has never owned a car, even though he’s lived, over the last 47…
2015-05-09
Cities Save The Earth From Humanity
Can humans grow enough food, produce enough energy and still preserve some of the last refuges of other…
2015-05-09
People Need More Energy Than Blue Whales
Geoffrey West doesn’t eat lunch. His doctor says he has a mild allergy to food; meals make him…
2015-05-04
Projecting City Realities In Comics
Raised in New York, fed by newspapers and nourished by urban life, comics tell the secrets of cities…
2015-05-02
Expanding Walkability In African Cities
Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent. Transit in cities will have to adapt to encourage walkability…
2015-04-23
Towers Of Silence In Mumbai
In exclusive Malabar Hill, the city’s dwindling Parsi community continues with the Zoroastrian tradition of disposing of dead…
2015-04-23
Foodie Heaven In A Parking Lot : What’s The Secret Of Portland’s Success?
Many credit a humble 1979 planning regulation with allowing the city to maintain its sense of identity and…
2015-04-20
Can A City Become Too Big?
The number of megacities has been increasing so rapidly in the last few decades that many are experiencing…
2015-04-18
11 Essential Things To See In Singapore
Even travellers who have ventured to Singapore in the past might not recognise the island today: the city-state…
2015-04-17
All The Ways Germany Is Less Car-Reliant Than The U.S., In 1 Chart
There are rather a lot of ways, as it turns out. For two Western powers with comparable wealth,…
2015-04-16
What A 2-Year-Old Can Teach Us About City Planning
Eric Feldman is used to viewing his neighbourhood through a designer’s lens. Lately, however, he’s found himself observing…
2015-04-15
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
2015-04-11
Big Apple. Big Cities. Big Data.
In mid-2011, New York found itself gripped by a series of horrible tragedies: Five people, including several children,…
2015-04-06
Blood On The Streets : The Violent History Of Public Squares
There may have been earlier public squares, yet the ancient Greeks with their agora, or central meeting place…
2015-03-13
What Makes A City Beautiful?
A provocative new video featuring Alain de Botton says beauty in urban settings must be objective—and to argue…
2015-03-11
How Overlooked Colonial Railways Could Revolutionize Transportation In Africa
Resurrecting relics of imperial rule is an unorthodox transit-development policy. But Africa’s “secondary cities” are set to benefit.…
2015-03-09
Should The World Plan For Fewer (Not More) People?
Current UN projections show that there will be 11 billion people living on Earth by the end of…
2015-03-04
The Smartest Cities Rely On Citizen Cunning And Unglamorous Technology
Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing…
2015-03-02
Germany’s Designer City
On the brick wall of a building beside the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, a small brass plaque…
2015-02-28
Science For Designers: Scaling And Fractals
With apologies to real estate agents, we’d like to say that the three most important factors in design…
2015-02-28
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
2015-02-24
Property Developers Exploit Authorities, Ruining Our Cities
Affordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow to the dazzling…
2015-02-21
7 Cities That Are Starting To Go Car-Free
Urban planners are finally recognising that streets should be designed for people, not careening hunks of deadly metal.…
2015-02-14
Dealing With Blizzards In Major US Cities
Whether two inches or two feet, snowfall can wreak havoc on a city – as residents of Atlanta…
2015-02-13
See The World Cities Explode In Size
The new Atlas of Urban Expansion maps out the past so cities can prepare for the future. By…
2015-02-09
Quality Of Life Improves In Compact Cities
That urban design improves the quality of people’s lives is an old idea. A new study, Measuring Sprawl…
2015-02-09
How Much Public Space Does a City Need?
How much of Manhattan is dedicated to public space? For starters, there’s Central Park, but the island’s oasis…
2015-02-04
Has the Time Come for Floating Cities?
From schools at sea to a city that perpetually sails the oceans, is climate change creating a bold…
2015-02-04
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
2015-01-31
5 Crucial Principles For 21st Century Transportation Systems
Handling tomorrow’s mega-trends means rethinking today’s infrastructure. Over the rest of the 21st century, cities will face many…
2015-01-30