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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
The findings could help planners design safer, more efficient pedestrian thoroughfares. Jennifer Chu | MIT NewsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2025/mathematicians-uncover-logic-behind-how-crowds-walk-0324)…
Fixing All The Most Annoying Parts Of City Life
From public brawls to garbage piles, cities are solving some long-standing nuisances. Street Fights Could the sweet smell…
Our Changing Views Of The City: A New Urban Celebration
The celebration of the city today is widespread. Globally, many cities have fulfilled Louis Wirth’s prophesy from 1930s Chicago.…
Cities Are Central To Human Flourishing
In many countries today, cities are the centers of innovation, engines of growth, and home to the richest…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2018
Note: Data for 2019 available here: https://citi.io/2019/06/27/the-top-50-smart-cities-in-the-world-2019/ The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data for the…
The Aim For Cities Of All Sizes To Give Everyone A Fair Go
We live in an urban world. By 2030, 66% of the world’s population will live in cities, concentrated in…
The Way Forward For Intersection Design?
A major issue for road safety is collisions at intersections between vehicles and vulnerable road users such as cyclists,…
Why Peace Walls & Other Social Frontiers Can Breed Crime & Conflict In Cities
In several cities across Northern Ireland, so-called “peace walls” mark the boundaries between Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods. Erected…
NewCities Launches Wellbeing City Award
Montréal, Canada – June 20, 2018. The NewCities Foundation today announced the launch of its Wellbeing City Award,…
Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes For Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so…
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…
Why Good Hackers Make Good Citizens
Hacking is about more than mischief-making or political subversion. As Catherine Bracy describes in this spirited talk, it…
Here’s What Makes These 10 Cities The World’s Most Livable
From Vienna to Auckland, these are the cities with the highest quality of living, according to a new…
How Sanctuary Cities Actually Work
President Trump says he wants to strip funding from so-called “sanctuary cities,” but what exactly do these cities…
The 100 Million City : Is 21st Century Urbanisation Out Of Control?
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an…
Why All Big Cities Need For Democratic And Metro-Scale Governance
Infrastructure Australia has called for metropolitan-scale governance of Australia’s largest cities. The new report by the Commonwealth’s statutory infrastructure agency,…
Why Australian Cities Are Crying Out For Better Planning
Although 90% of our population lives in cities, Australia lacks a national urban policy and our government provides insufficient funding…
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”…
Robots Could Make The UK’s North-South Divide Even Worse
Technological progress is normal. A steady flow of new developments enables a gradual increase in prosperity. But sometimes…
This Is Why Health Has To Be At The Heart Of The New Urban Agenda
Urban experts gathered at the ninth World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur over the past week to discuss progress on…
Elephant In The Planning Scheme: How Cities Still Work Around The Dominance Of Parking Space
Car parking is expected but often unnoticed, taking up surprisingly large proportions of city space. A parking bay occupies…
Why Buses Could Be History, Sooner Than You Think
In 1890, no one foresaw the rise of the internal combustion engine: horses were the fastest means of…
These Savvy Cities Are Using Tech To Spark Citizen Engagement
In the spring of 2017, the doors to a new type of community center swung open in Louisville,…
Managing Shrinking Cities In An Expanding World
Urbanisation has been a well-established trend in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, depopulation and deurbanisation in some…
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…
How To Make Smart Cities Human Again
Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count…
Top 15 Cities With The Most Trees
There’s a global movement encouraging cities to grow more trees and plan more parks. But which ones have the most green…
How Slums Can Inspire The Micro-Cities Of The Future
Soon, one third of humanity will live in a slum. Our cities are at breaking point. Over 90%…
Tech Diplomacy: Cities Drive A New Era Of Digital Policy And innovation
France recently appointed a tech ambassador to the Silicon Valley. French President Emmanuel Macron named David Martinon as…
The Quest For The Convivial City: How Do Ours Fare?
What comes to mind when you think of the word “convivial”? Likely, images of happiness, freedom, relaxation and…
When A Country’s Towns & Villages Face Extinction
It is predicted that 896 towns and villages across Japan will no longer be viable by 2040 (see…
Top Cleanest Cities In The World 2017
All human beings want to live in a clean and green environment but not all people are committed…
Can The World’s Megacities Survive The Digital Age?
Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed countries, cities with populations of 10 million or…
How To Prepare For A Disaster In A Big City
How to survive a nuclear attack and other disasters in a big city, as explained by a “prepper”.…
Cities Are Literally Changing Animals
How cities are changing animals. This feature is from The Verge.
These Are The Most (And Least) Safe Cities In The World 2017
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s third annual Safe Cities Index has ranked four East Asian and three European cities in the…
Why Cities Should Plant More Trees
Cities can take one simple step to combat the impact of urban pollution, climate change, and even summer…
When Artificial Intelligence Rules The City
When we think of the city of the future, we might think about flying cars and scenes from “Star Trek”…
AI Is Reshaping What We Know About Cities
Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities. Why do certain neighborhoods feel safe while some feel…
In These Small Cities, AI Advances Could Be Costly
A new MIT study finds that larger cities are more resilient to technological unemployment. It’s long been clear…
These Are The Cities Where Visitors Spend The Most Cash
Maybe it’s the fact that there are vending machines that dispense solid gold. But Dubai is significantly outpacing…
Why Are the Top Ten Richest Countries Small?
What is common between the top ten richest countries in the world? This video is created by…
Tech Made Cities Too Expensive. Here’s How To Fix It
IN 2013 PROTESTS broke out in Oakland, California, directed against the private buses that shuttle tech workers from pricey…
16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
IF YOU THINK the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like…
21 Striking Pictures of How the World Gets Around
From the mighty train to the humble hoof, see unique modes of transportation across the globe. BANGALORE, INDIA…
Why Suburban Tensions & Inequality Will Drive Infrastructure Innovation
The global trend towards suburbanisation and suburbanisms (meaning suburban ways of life) has an important infrastructure dimension. In both growing and…
In A Truly Smart City, Even The Daily Commute Is Productive
The alarm on your smart phone went off 10 minutes earlier than usual this morning. Parts of the…
Cities Like Amsterdam And Dublin Inspired By Its Inclusive Universities
Take a walk around any city, and you will probably spot the signs of other countries and cultures.…
Aussie Cities Needs To Amp Up Its Regional Transport Aims
In Sydney and Melbourne, the squeeze is on. Population is booming; house prices are still rising; roads and…
Why Cities Are Where They Are
Politics and history aside, the single best place on Earth to build a city may be right where…