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How Portland Is Paving Ways For The Safest Cyclist Intersections
Researchers at Portland State hope to be the first to develop standard guidelines for protected bike lane crossings.…
2016-04-21
The Ancient Bridge That Claps In Somerset
In the lonely moors of Devon and in other upland areas of the United Kingdom, the ancient people…
2016-04-20
To Pave Or Not To Pave, That Is The Question Edinburgh
Edinburgh is setting aside £1 million ($1.4 million U.S.) to repair worn-down cobblestone streets, reports Edinburgh News, and…
2016-04-18
“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…
2016-04-08
A Winning Skyscraper Design, Done Upside Down
Imagine standing on the edge of New York’s Central Park and looking down into a 1.3-sq mile (3.4-sq…
2016-03-31
How Roads, Walksheds, & Watersheds Unite In Portland
One street size does not fit all neighborhoods, because carrying traffic is not the sole function of a…
2016-03-23
Hopefully, New Urban Highways Learn From Mistakes Of The Past
As plans advance for the Interstate 49 Connector, Lafayette, Louisiana, might soon find out. Lafayette, Louisiana, shouldn’t have…
2016-03-21
How Sandtown, Baltimore Reinvents Itself With Community Planning
Across the United States thousands of once thriving working class neighborhoods are boarded up, but few are in…
2016-03-18
Why America May Wrongly Hate Those Roundabouts
Maps and data visualizations show the U.S. trailing much of the world when it comes to traffic circles.…
2016-03-15
Vertical Urban Farms Finds Cute Endorser In Snoopy, Finally
A Montreal-based architecture firm has Snoopy make the case for turning New York’s MetLife Building into the world’s…
2016-03-14
The Intricate & Intimate Relationship Between Pedestrians & Wi-Fi
Wireless access points can track the daily walking routes of crowds, allowing urban planners to build for better…
2016-03-14
A Limit To Urban Height In Vancouver
We don’t always have to build up to fit more people into a city. Vancouver and Seattle offer…
2016-02-18
A Vision Of Transforming Industrial Bareness To Eco-Villages
A landscape architect proposes exurban shipping districts you’d actually want to visit (or live in). Environmentalists have been…
2016-02-05
Amazing Strolls From Manhattan To Jersey City And Back
Manhattan isn’t far from Jersey City as the crow flies, but because of the Hudson River, moving from…
2016-01-19
How Philly Made An All-In Bet On In-Sink Disposals
A trashy plan to create good gas. Between an in-sink garbage disposal and heaping food scraps into the…
2016-01-14
Discover The Clearest (Obvious?) Link Why More Carparks Means More Cars
Long after it was painfully clear that cigarettes caused cancer, big tobacco companies maintained that no such link…
2016-01-14
How To Turn Bland Infra To Something Beautifully Good
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of…
2016-01-07
The 10 Best Performing Cities Of 2015
What drives the economic momentum of the most dynamic metros in the United States? Each year, the Milken…
2016-01-04
10 Amazing Construction Technologies That Could Change The World
The effects of humans on the Earth are becoming more profound every day. Our energy consumption is higher…
2015-12-22
Can Cars That Park Themselves Reduce Traffic?
New England’s most densely populated city is testing a new way to alleviate congestion and free up more…
2015-12-21
Want To Build Better Cities? Get Involved In Rail Projects
Our cities are slowing down. Traffic speeds have slowed in the world’s cities for 30 years and rail…
2015-12-16
How Your London Subway Trains May Become Moving Walkways
Following its plan to bring London out of the shade with shadow-free skyscrapers, NBBJ has unveiled a new…
2015-12-10
How Your Future Mass Transit Commute May Become More Personal
Part mass transit, part personal mobility, the Next Future Transportation system is designed to act as an efficient,…
2015-12-10
Why In London, Beautiful Journeys Begin With Beautiful Trains
Air-conditioned walk-through carriages, with capacity for 1,500 customers, Wi-Fi and 4G Lightweight and energy efficient design means 30…
2015-12-08
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…
2015-12-02
Land Of Midnight Traffic Jams. More Fun? More Like Hell On Earth.
Metro Manila, on an urban level, was named as having the “worst traffic on Earth,” based on a…
2015-12-01
Why Sustainability & Unbridled Growth Is A Match Made In Hell
Can Australians be sustainable and enjoy endless economic growth? It’s not likely. Steve Hatfield-Dodds argued that sustainability was…
2015-12-01
Silicon Valley’s Cause And Solution To Inequality Is The Same
San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing…
2015-11-27
The Hidden Secret Adventures Underneath Downtown L.A.
This network of concrete passageways has an eerie past. Downtown Los Angeles is synonymous with a kind of…
2015-11-20
How Have Our Travel Habits Changed Over The Past 50 Years
We tend to assume that travel today is fundamentally different from what it was half a century ago.…
2015-11-02
Why Small And Simple Is Key To Flood Resilience
How should cities respond to the threat of flooding? I think sometimes small, simple interventions can be the…
2015-10-29
Liveable Cities : Who Decides What That Means And How We Achieve It
The Conversation has appointed a cities and policy editor to lead our coverage of the myriad issues affecting…
2015-10-29
Resilience For Free : Protecting Vulnerable Communities
Clean Energy Group, through its Resilient Power Project, has released a new report analysing the economics of resilient…
2015-10-22
What A City Would Look Like If It Were Designed For Only Bikes (No Cars Allowed!)
Coasting down from your apartment on your personal bike ramp will be so fun. The more that bike…
2015-10-21
Why Smart Cities, As It Is Portrayed, Is Not Always Really Smart
Digital tracking systems – The smart city ‘is a promise to improve quality of life, even in Dutch…
2015-10-20
When Will Federal Government Get Cities And Urban Policy
The appointment of a federal minister for cities and the built environment is a signal moment in urban…
2015-10-16
A 21st Century Smart Metrics Guide For Smart Cities
Smart cities make sense: they waste less, offer better quality of life and ensure a brighter future for…
2015-10-09
Before-And-After Photo Of The World’s Best Street Designs
As a remarkable new photo archive of urban transformations shows, making city streets more user-friendly doesn’t have to…
2015-09-16
How Spokane Started A “Smart Bus System”
The new tracking system will give riders a sense of security for where the bus is at all…
2015-09-14
Why Traffic Will Cancel Christmas This Year
“If the mountain will not come to Mohamed, Mohamed must go to the mountain.” In like manner, if…
2015-09-14
A Tale Of Four World Cities Compared
These four cities – home to a total of more than 80 million people – respond to economic,…
2015-09-03
How Christchurch Returned The City To Its Cycling Roots
After the 2011 disaster, residents were asked what they wanted from the city once known as ‘Cyclopolis’. They…
2015-09-01
The Transportation Choices That Millennials Want
To attract young professionals, cities increasingly are going to have to think multi-modal. With no long-term solution in…
2015-08-27
Australia’s Queensland Set To Become Sunnier With Largest Solar Farm
A sea of glass panels may soon be sprawling across a paddock in Queensland’s Darling Downs cranking out…
2015-07-31
Why The True Cost Of Suburban Sprawl Will Surprise You, Or Not
Two new studies demonstrate the true costs of sprawl, and attempt to show that if new development was…
2015-07-24
Why eGovernment Has Such A Long Way To Go
The video accompanying this story was produced for NIC in support of its Innovation Nation initiative. Two decades…
2015-07-21
Internet Infrastructure Field Guide In New York
Many people don’t think about the physical, tangible framework that allows them to surf the web, but a…
2015-06-23
Building Infrastructure That Cleans The Air
Barcelona is building a traffic bridge out of pollution-neutralizing concrete. Chicago has paved a road with it. Could…
2015-06-18
How To Make Infrastructure Sexy
INFRASTRUCTURE IS VITAL, BUT TOTALLY BORING. ONE CHICAGO AGENCY TRIES TO SPICE THINGS UP WITH DATA VIZ. Infrastructure…
2015-06-09
A New Life For Dead Malls
Developers have had to to get creative when it comes to salvaging America’s failing shopping centers, turning them…
2015-05-25