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Living In The City: Taking The First Steps
Migrating to a big city can be confusing and nerve-wracking, especially if it’s your first time. You must…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2020
Here are the world’s smartest cities, according to a research published by IESE Business School in Barcelona. Now…
How Blockchain Systems Could Bring About The Age Of Smart Cities
Various technological up-and-coming trends are projected to have a massive impact on our everyday life in the following…
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…
Cities Are Central To Human Flourishing
In many countries today, cities are the centers of innovation, engines of growth, and home to the richest…
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%…
Essential Gear For The Urban Dweller: The Gadgets
Last but certainly not least, we go to the finale of this series and what most people probably…
Essential Gear For The Urban Dweller: The Accessories
We previously covered some good options for bags in the first part of this series, now let us…
Essential Gear For The Urban Dweller: The Bags
Living in the city can be a daunting endeavour where everything is so fast-paced, it is hard to…
How Modern Luxury Meets Traditional Sensibilities
Looking at the image above, one would think it came off of a sci-fi movie or a very…
Stop Detaching A City’s Life & Fate With The Planet’s
Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope.…
Heaven Or Hell On Earth? At The Fringes Of World’s Biggest Cities
Over eight years, photojournalist Adam Hinton spent time in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Manila, Cape…
As More Of Asia Prospers, Obesity Becomes A Weighty Deal
Extra body weight has long been associated with wealth, as evident from Renaissance art to stereotypes of modern…
Mobile Big Data Discoveries Show Social Segregations In Hong Kong
There’s plenty to learn about where residents travel each day, and with whom they choose to interact. Inequality…
An Ethical City : An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Or Has Long Been Delayed)
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central…
Why The Downward Spiral Of Inequality Is Becoming Harder To Fix
Why does economic inequality—as opposed to just poverty—matter? There are a lot of reasons, but a big one…
Could This Be The Best Cities To Live In The USA?
Livability’s third annual ranking of the best small to mid-sized cities in the U.S. They ranked more than 2,000 cities…
Getting Lost In Singapore’s Street Names? Discover Here.
The Street and Building Names Board was only established in 2003. In the past, street-naming fell to the Municipal…
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
On The Edge Of Existence, The City Of Timbuktu
What is life like in Mali’s ‘city in the middle of nowhere’? Guardian photographer Sean Smith recently spent…
How Data Analytics Help Cities Re-think People’s Health And Safety
In cities around the country, we’re seeing the beginning of fundamental change in how governments discharge their regulatory…
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…
When It Comes To Falling In Love With Cities, Size Matters
Before Joan Didion left New York, she fell in love with it, “the way you love the first…
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…