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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…
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
Top 10 Urban Projects Made For People, By Its People
Take a close look at 10 of the Best Urban Projects in the World. I’ve always been fond of…
Urban Density: An Oversimplified Concept That Endanger Our Future
In debates about urban density, we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough,…
A Peek Into Imagining China Without The Crowds
A photographer’s solo journey led to an uniquely beautiful take on the country’s landscapes. Type “street in Hong…
“The World’s Longest Bridge” Is Now In The USA, Not “Just” Asia
If you look at the list of the longest bridges in the world, you will notice that the…
The 24/7 City And The Uncomfortable Balance We Need To Make
A city, especially in the global age, is active, night and day. Some cities particularly – New York…
2016’s Most Expensive City Is Still Unsurprisingly Singapore
Singapore has again been judged as the world’s most expensive city but costs across the world have been…
10 Cities That Are Shaping The Future Of Urban Living
Cities are frequently at the front line of innovation when it comes to addressing the changing problems of…
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…
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…
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…
Why Cities And Cars Are Soon To Get A Divorce
Last month, Oslo became the first major city to announce ambitions to go car-free by 2019, pledging a…
$14.3 Billion In A Day : Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Stats
“Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logged a record 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in sales on Singles’ Day, turning…
The Day About One That Is Really About All
Online shopping sales are expected to reach record levels as Chinese consumers flock to “Singles’ Day” discounts. As…
Top 15 Biggest Retail Giants Of The World
The retail industry is one of the biggest and arguably the most profitable industries in the world. The…
10 Best Student Cities In The World 2015
What makes a great student city? A whole mixture of things, including well-reputed universities, quality of life, employment…
The Top 10 Universities in Asia 2015
Using a methodology based on nine performance indicators, the ranking facilitates comparison of Asia’s leading institutions on factors…
Why New York, Not London, Is The Economic Powerhouse Of The World
New York and London are both powerhouse cities, competitive in everything from fashion, music, and finance, to now…
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…
How Should We Design Cities To Make The Most Of Urban Ecosystems?
Back in 1839, public health expert J F Murray published his article The Lungs of London, in Blackwood’s…
Stay Cool Or Warm With The Best Hotel Pools In The World
In case you hadn’t noticed, hotel pools have moved up a notch from the kinds of places we…
The Top 10 Richest Cities With Serious Poverty Issues
The ten cities listed here are some of the richest and most cultured cities in the world. They…
The Transport System To Truly Take Your Breath Away
Cable car rides, also known as gondola lifts, can offer memorable bird’s-eye views of a destination. Here’s a…
A Tale Of The Best Shopping Cities In The World v1
From New York’s Fifth Avenue to the world’s largest mall in Dubai, these are the best places to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cities For The Super-Rich
London has the highest concentration of the world’s wealthiest individuals, followed closely by Tokyo, Singapore, and New York,…
How Fast Should Development Cycles Be?
Having lived and worked in both Singapore and London, I’ve experienced first-hand the very different pace of projects…
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,…
8 Best Food Cities In The World
Travelers love to eat–that’s why every year, as part of our Readers’ Choice Awards survey, we ask our…
Easy To Praise Smaller Cities, Harder To Fix Large Ones
The mayors of Latin America’s biggest cities gathered in Buenos Aires for the C40 forum to discuss their…
The Mystery Of Asia’s Pollution Haze
A haze has periodically wafted over South-east Asia for 20 years. But despite rising public health concern, the…
What Happens When All Our Cemeteries Are Full?
The business of death has become highly lucrative as the cost of dying rises in cities across the…
Desert Dwellings : Egypt Fights Housing Crisis
Egypt is in the throes of a severe housing shortage, with people so desperate for shelter they’re building…
360-degree Cities
The stereographic projection technique was used to convert aerial panoramas of cities including Paris, Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago…
World’s Best Connected Cities : Where To Move
The internet has brought us all closer together – we can trade online and chat using Skype. But…
5 Things To Know About Doing Business In Shenzhen
China is not the centre of the tech world, but with a manufacturing and consumer electronics powerhouse like Shenzhen,…
The 10 Most Sustainable Cities That Will Thrive As The World Crumbles
A new ranking looks at three factors that go into making a city successful: people, planet, and profit.…
Designing For Daylight
Embracing daylight is critical to sustainable urban development. In our increasingly urbanised world, planning regulations and tools should…
What’s The World’s Coldest City?
Yellowknife in Canada, where windchill regularly takes the temperature below -30C? Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, where you have to…
City Celebrations : Chinese New Year 2015 In Pictures
February 19, 2015 marked the Chinese New Year and the coming of the Year Of The Sheep or…
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 is old enough…
Floating Cities In Pictures
As rising sea levels threaten low-lying nations around the world, floating cities are gaining political backing and some…
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…
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…
Urban Light Pollution: Why We’re All Living with Permanent ‘Mini Jetlag’
Studies show that exposure to light after dusk is quite literally unnatural, and may be detrimental to health.…
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…