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.
Skaters at this park in Lugano, Switzerland don't have to pull out their phones to check the time - they can just glance down at a series of colored lines painted right onto the concrete of the ...
An urban pedestrian paradise, this conceptual design proposes to turn cities skyward with a system of flexible open spaces that gradually rise as floor plates curve up around its ...
Why stop at parks when we could make cities lusher and greener by integrating thousands of plants right into the facades of urban buildings? Vertical greenery improves air quality, shades the ...
A forced relocation is underway as thousands of squatters are moved by authorities out of their homes and the city of Caracas, some of whom have called the infamous half-finished Tower of ...
Just how livable can a 135-square-foot micro-house really be? That's what an interdisciplinary group of students, faculty and alumni at Savannah College of Art and Design set out to learn with ...
In a bold bid to change its urban landscape for good, Brazil's biggest city has given a green light to citizen proposals to transform car parking spots into perpetual park ...
Always pushing the limits of posh possibility, this latest endeavor aims to put an entire urban center in a temperature-controlled bubble of indoor spaces, centered around a vast Mall of the ...
Manhattan is packed full of world-class restaurants, a vast array of shops, a beautiful nature preserve and virtually everything else required to satisfy the modern urbanite - except for a beach. ...
New York City residents could have a stylish and safe place to live in less than 15 hours after a catastrophic natural or manmade disaster with these modular 'pop-up' apartments. Developed by ...
In many cities, freeways cut through the heart of urban centers like fresh wounds faded to old scars, but what if there were a way to reintegrate the disparate sides across the ...
