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Mobile Urban Architecture: Portable Housing and More

More and more designers are developing nomadic alternatives to traditional models of static urban living.

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Digitally Mapping the Urban Environment in Real Time

An MIT SENSEable City Laboratory project, Wiki City Rome seeks to create a "Real Time Rome" from various data sources.

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The Oldest Surviving Skyscrapers in the World

Surprisingly, neither is the art of constructing tall buildings, as evidenced by the city of Shibam.

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Can Burning Man Really Go Green?

Burning Man is an amazing annual event that takes places for one week a year in the remote Black Rock Desert.

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Associative Design: American Dream 2.0

This amazing video shows the ways in which people are rethinking urban density.

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7 Illustrated City Scenes from Around the World

Kozyndan illustrate compelling scenes from major urban areas all over the globe, from San Francisco to Tokyo, New York to Newcastle.

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Creative Urban Photography

Creative urban photographers have a way of representing cities in new and different lights.

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Homeless Culture & Nomadic Urbanism

What Does It Mean to Be Homeless? An estimated 100 million people worldwide are "homeless" ... but what is homelessness?

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New Tallest Skyscraper in the World

The creation of the tallest building in the world has become such a status-seeking quest, cities and countries competing for the title have stopped revealing the planned height of their buildings.

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