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Chicago
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Rediscovering Chicago’s Rich History And What We Can Learn From It Today
Chicago is a city with a long and storied history, stretching back centuries and steeping the place in…
The Top 10 U.S. Cities For Immigrants
Our world is becoming more and more diverse as people continue to move from their home countries to…
Polar Vortex : What Is It And How Is It Linked To Climate Change?
The polar vortex has broken into ‘two swirling blobs of cold air’, bringing the most frigid conditions in…
Top U.S. Cities For Dating In 2018
While there’s a lot of things that go into a good first date, such as compatibility, physical attractiveness and…
How To Find Your Real Sister City
People often link Austin, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as sister cities. Both are home to anchor universities…
The Future Of The Cloud And Data Centers Are Found In A Bakery
We live in a data-driven world. From social media to smart cities to the internet of things, we…
America’s Tallest Skyscrapers: Keeping Cool & Saving Energy
This is the John Hancock Center, one of the iconic building in Chicago and one of the tallest…
The Force Awakens With Beautiful Architecture In Chicago
Following a lawsuit, a significant redesign, and not a little controversy, the Chicago City Council has finally succumbed…
How Wellington Is Redefining What A Cool Windy City Is
The wind speed in this breeziest of cities once hit 154mph just a few miles from the centre,…
Chicago Greens : The 10 Best Spots To Refresh In The Windy City
Chicago is a big city—approaching three million in population—but has been called the Second City since the 1950s,…
Chicago’s History With Smart Sewage Management To Power Future
Chicago’s wastewater authority plans to slash its energy bill by using bacteria to convert sewage into natural gas.…
Resilience For Free : Protecting Vulnerable Communities
Clean Energy Group, through its Resilient Power Project, has released a new report analysing the economics of resilient…
Why Millennials Will Soon Leave The Cities They Remade
Officials in several cities transformed by young adults try to predict their next move. For years, millennials have…
New App Touts Cheaper Parking In Chicago
Parking in Chicago is bad. With the privatization of its parking meters and its reputation as one of…
10 Most Walkable Cities In America
Cities that make life easier for pedestrians are, to many, better places to live. Studies have shown that…
What Your City Would Look Like In Tron
Stacks of geometric blue shapes represent skyscrapers. Cars become shooting yellow dashes moving across the landscape. Undeveloped land…
From Dawn To Dusk : Timeslice Images Of Cities
Dan Marker-Moore, aka DANOR.ST, is an aerial photographer who captures awe-striking vistas from bi-planes, helicopters, drones, and even…
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…
Radical Old, Futuristic New: 9 Visions For Chicago
Chicagoisms, at the art institute, explores the city’s progressive urban design and enlists architects’ riffs on the city’s…
Chicago, The Last Great Capital Of Cartography
As America grew in the late 19th century, so did mapmaking—and Chicago was at the heart of it.…