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Architecture Gets All To Live At The Top
One designer’s solution to class conflict caused by blocked views. The biggest class conflict for coming generations will…
10 Most Walkable Cities In America
Cities that make life easier for pedestrians are, to many, better places to live. Studies have shown that…
Quirky Ideas For More Sustainable Cities
City living has many upsides, but a sustainable lifestyle is increasingly not among them. Pollution, traffic and loss…
A Germaphobe’s Guide To Buying A Metrocard
As a student of cities and a lover of urban systems, my mild germaphobia often leaves me conflicted.…
Architects And Second-Tier Cities, Partners For Progress
Ambitious architects tend to cluster in the same metropolises: New York, Chicago, L.A. (not to mention Beijing and…
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…
LA’s pLAn : From Smog & Sprawl To A Green Sustainable City
Los Angeles is known around the world as the home of Hollywood stars, sunny beaches and a high…
Which US Cities Are Most Ready To Fill Tech Jobs?
Saying that America’s 50-industries-strong tech sector is “the country’s best shot at supporting innovative, inclusive, and sustainable growth,”…
Where Is The World’s Greenest City?
Bristol is the ‘green capital’ of Europe, but its predecessor Copenhagen comes top in a Europe-wide index. Curitiba,…
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,…
360-degree Cities
The stereographic projection technique was used to convert aerial panoramas of cities including Paris, Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago…
The Evolution Of Urban Planning In 10 Diagrams
Le Corbusier’s plan may not have had such power if he hadn’t put it on paper. The French…
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,…
From Brutalism To Borgen To Blogging: How The Language Of Cities Has Changed
Do you speak urbanism? The way we read and write in the language of cities has transformed. One…
Want Your City To Thrive? Look To Its Trees
Communities like Culver City, California, are focusing on urban forest plans to help protect a major economic and…
20 US Cities With The Fastest Rising Rents
A Trulia.com analysis of rental prices in US includes a roster of cities with the highest rent boosts from…
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.…
Downtown Is For People
This is a classic article by Jane Jacobs originally published in Fortune Magazine in 1958. If the downtown…
Most Livable Cities 2015, Vienna Tops The List Again
Vienna, Austria remained at the top of Mercer’s Quality of Living Rankings in 2015, boasting the best quality of…
Visualising The City Of Barcelona
At night in Barcelona, Gaudi’s Parc Guell lights up, and the little restaurants in Las Ramblas hop with…
Vancouver, Ottawa Among Top 5 Quality-Of-Life Cities In North America
Canadian cities dominate North America’s top-five list for quality of life in a closely watched annual survey. Vancouver…
Talk Of The Town : Society Is Abuzz
What do the social networks look like in your city or country? Dave Troy (TED Talk: Social maps…
Germany’s Designer City
On the brick wall of a building beside the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, a small brass plaque…
MIT Is Drawing 10,000 Maps To Save The World
The social computing group wants to initiate social change via data visualisation at the rate of a map…
A Power Ranking Of California’s Start-Up Cities
Two MIT social scientists have developed a better way of mapping entrepreneurial quality. It seems lately that every…
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 city resident of…
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates The Poor
There’s a name for uncomfortable benches, hard-to-reach parks, and ubiquitous surveillance: disciplinary architecture. When news emerged that a…
The Global Cities That Power the World Economy Now
The latest numbers from the Brookings Institution are a reminder that inequality has a geographic dimension. It’s often…
The Connection Between Successful Cities And Inequality
New research shows that the largest U.S. cities would do well to focus on workers at the bottom…
Maps That You Can Hear And Touch
Scientists and architects are pioneering a new cartography for blind users. Sighted people read maps almost every day.…
These Images Of World Cities From “Space” Are Not What They Seem
These high-quality images may look like photographs of world cities at night taken by astronauts from the International…
Parking Innovations That Every City Should Adopt
No one knows more about parking than UCLA’s Donald Shoup, the so-called “prophet of parking” and author of…
How Prepared Are We For Climate Change?
Whether you live in San Francisco or Mongolia, climate change is going to impact your life. But even…
A Tale Of Tech Cities
From San Francisco to Seattle to New York, tech companies are increasingly choosing to base themselves in city…
Harnessing City Sounds For Better Urban Living
Counting cars, finding where shootings have occurred, and counting wildlife: all of this can be done by listening…
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…
Rethinking Our Cities To Fight Obesity
Using urban planning to help fight obesity by putting people on a design-based diet that changes how they…
Smart slums: Utopian or Dystopian Vision of the Future?
A researcher explores how smart-city sensor technology can empower or disempower slum dwellers. Life in a smart city is…
Big Data Has Potential to Both Hurt and Help Disadvantaged Communities
In the future, all aspects of daily urban life might be tracked and translated into data points. Local…
Night Sky: Cities Without The Lights
In Darkened Cities, the lights from these famous metropolises have been removed, giving you a glimpse at what…
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…
The Geometry Of Urban Life
Even a roaming cartophile, looking through an airplane window at night, would be challenged to identify a city…
What Does it Mean to Rebuild a City?
108 years ago, San Francisco was hit by a major earthquake, sparking fires that decimated the city. In…
City Maps Through The Ages
From London’s cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, these are the works of the earliest data gurus, who…
The Science of Quieter Cities
Tired of listening to your neighbor’s shoes, the garbage truck, and the sound of car traffic? What if…
Is Urbanisation Sustainable?
“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on…
Are Crime Cameras Really Worth the Money?
In May 2010, a 30-year-old Pakistani-American drove his Nissan Pathfinder into one of the most scrutinized urban spaces…
World’s Worst Pandemic Leaders: 5 Presidents And Prime Ministers Who Badly Mishandled COVID-19
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes…
What is CRISPR, the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize?
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and…