From classic ideas of city construction to suburban sprawl and urban renewal, these articles cover everything from landscape and new urbanism to forms not yet fully defined – click through to see the cities of our past, present and future.
Modular thinking is brilliant and infectious, expanding and spreading from industrial-revolution technologies to three-dimensional printing and beyond. But how big can modularity get? Imagine the ...
Chances are, you'd notice all of the vacant lots in your city if massive LEGO structures were used to call attention to the wasted space. 'Habit Makes Us Blind' is a concept by Spanish studio ...
With a population of nearly 13.5 million packed into just 2,448 square miles and a large network of disused bomb shelters, it's no surprise that some Shanghai businesses are going underground. ...
Throughout human history, one of the most fundamental underlying purposes of urbanity has been to create a sense of control, engineering an escape from the innate danger and chaos of the natural ...
Solid black isn't a typical choice for most architecture. It's stark and imposing, seeming to send a message that booms 'go away.' But sometimes, it works. These 15 all-black monochromatic ...
Medical marijuana dispensaries, compassion centers and “cannabis clubs” have sprung up like, er, weeds over the past several decades complementary to laws allowing for the legal use of ...
Philadelphia native Andrew Evans takes pictures that give a new perspective on the processes of urban deconstruction, showing before, during and after images of once-proud civic ...
London could get a new 21st-century airport that utilizes some of the only space left within the city - the surface of the Thames River. The London branch of the international architecture firm ...
Take abandoned office towers without occupants, on the one hand, while people all around sleeping on the streets, on the other. One deserted structure in downtown Caracas provides a fascinating ...
In the early 20th Century, urban design was under siege by Modernists who thought they had it figured out, but made a critical mistake: setting their ideas in stone (or: glass and concrete) ...
