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Eight Ways To Halt A Global Food Crisis
There are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look. Intensive use of fertilisers in the US…
Cities Are Growing Insanely Fast: How Can We Prepare
The world is going urban. More than half (55 per cent) of the global population are city dwellers.…
Cities Are Central To Human Flourishing
In many countries today, cities are the centers of innovation, engines of growth, and home to the richest…
African Cities Must Address Social & Economic Issues When Upgrading Slums
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 55% of the urban population are estimated to live in areas categorised as slums and informal…
US Cities Losing 36 Million Trees A Year, Researchers Find
Scientists warn of environmental threats rising from trend that is ‘likely to continue unless policies are altered’. Cities…
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…
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…
In Defense Of The Small City
Everyone, including the president, thinks struggling Americans should just move to places like New York. They’re wrong. The…
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet…
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…
The Big Dig: How The High Cost Of Land Is Forcing Hong Kong Into Caverns
With the highest house prices in the world, and most of its land unbuildable, the city has found…
Nail Houses, A Pain In China’s Rapid Urbanisation Run
A single house balancing precariously in the middle of a construction site may seem like a doomed and…
What The Strip Can Teach Us About Urban Planning
Long before America’s current urban revival, the Strip was ditching its streetside car parks for promenades and conceiving…
HUNGRY FUTURE: If Cities Take Over Fertile Farms
Cropland losses will have consequences especially for Asia and Africa, which will experience growing food insecurity as cities…
Major Cities Across The World Re-imagined Through A Video Game Universe
We don’t really feature video games here but a recent press release of game studio Eidos-Montreal showcasing their…
Our Modern Grid Design For Cities, Not So Modern After All
The ruins of Timgad lies on the slopes of the Aures Massif, about 35 km east of the…
Why Calgary, A City Centre For Oil, Fights Cars & Suburban Sprawl
Calgary is like any other Canadian city that grew outwards, not upwards. But led by progressive mayor Naheed…
Africa’s Urban Megatrends Can Only Succeed If…
With more than half of Africans expected to live in cities by 2050, we need to turn urban…
Discover A Tale Of Cities, We Missed & Unheard
To complement our 50-part series on the history of urbanisation, our readers shared fascinating stories of the cities…
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
Grow Your Own : Making Australian Cities More Food-Secure
Food security has typically been framed as an issue of global concern, concentrated within developing countries. The UN…
Lessons Of Incremental Innovation In Southeast Asia
Having explored most of Vietnam and a small part of Cambodia, I am struck by the innovation that…
Why Cities Rise Fast And Falls Faster
Combined challenge of climate change and population growth puts premium on rapid urbanisation ‘in a way that’s not…
Migrants Are The Key Source Of Vitality For Cities, Plan Well
The world’s population is becoming increasingly urban. Sometime in 2007 is usually reckoned to be the turning point…
World Cities Day 2015 : Better City, Better Life
The United Nations has every 31st of October as World Cities Day. The Day is expected to greatly…
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…
How A City In Chile Recovered From Devastation
Five years on from the 2010 earthquake, Gideon Long revisits the city flattened by a tsunami to find…
An Alarming Glimpse Into Unbridled Urban Development
British photographer Marcus Lyon creates apocalyptic images of what cities might look like if left to grow out…
What’s The Perfect Size For A City?
The world’s cities are sprawling over their boundaries, fragmenting into smaller parts run by competing regional governments. But…
Are Vertical Villages Bad For Cities
The modern skyscraper is being designed with an ever-increasing range of features – from shops and offices to…
How To Raise Awareness About Population Explosion
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to…
How Boomers Will Shape The Future Of Our Cities
The principal of CannonDesign predicts that his generation will be active participants in making our urban environments healthier.…
Why Our Cities Need Smart Transport
The reform of urban mobility remains one of the biggest challenges confronting policy makers around the world. According…
Big Data Could Help Cities On Climate Change
With last year’s U.S.-China Climate Accord came a new focus on municipal sustainability. Yes, power plants and national…
Megacities Might Not Save The Planet After All
YOU LEARN TO put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always…
Are tiny homes the next big thing for cities?
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases — and as city officials try to make…
Visions Of Smart City Utopia Need Urgent Reality Check
Responsive urban technology sounds enticing but citizens must not be disconnected from plans drawn up on their behalf.…
A City Is Near By The Plastic In The Sea
Two French oceanography researchers expected to find pollution on their 8,345km, 14-month kayak journey from Gibraltar to Istanbul…
Grisly Secrets Of Dealing With Victorian London’s Dead
As well as sewerage, another “waste removal” problem plagued London in the 19th century: the disposal of the…
Can A City Become Too Big?
The number of megacities has been increasing so rapidly in the last few decades that many are experiencing…
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
How Is China Transforming Its Cities?
China is showing the rest of the world how to expand and transform its cities. The speed and…
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…
Alessandra Orofino: It’s Our City. Let’s Fix It.
Too often, people feel checked out of politics — even at the level of their own city. But…
Is Your City Too Smart For You?
Could pursuing the rational, clinical urbanism of smart cities destroy the charming chaos of traditional city life without…
We Need Agile Cities
If we are to make cities work for people in the future, to enable economic growth without depleting…
New York’s New Endangered Resource
‘Supertall’ buildings are sprouting like beanstalks in central New York, costing its citizens precious sunshine and air, and…
What If The Entire World Lived In 1 City?
Two Yale architects pose the question in an ambitious research project. It’s difficult to think about global urbanisation…
Population Boom – An Engineering Response
A report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers makes suggestions for the role that the engineering profession can play in…
Is There A Moore’s Law For Cities?
Several thousand years ago the evolution of social organisations in the form of cities brought a new dynamic…