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.
It takes a village... at first, at least. Whether that village grows into a city depends on many factors; whether it remains inhabited through centuries, even millennia, of war, natural disasters ...
Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has ...
Urban planners, sociologists and science fiction writers have long dreamed of futuristic utopias at sea, on land or in space. These 10 examples showcase some of the weird, wild, and workable plans ...
Planes, trains and automobiles: these essential modes of transportation are all part of the daily grind for millions of workers & players. Travel's not trivial, however, thanks to architects ...
Most people that love to travel, especially families, tend to explore the wonders of the world during daytime. Unfortunately for these travelers, they miss out on the complete transformation that ...
One of the reasons cities compete so savagely over the Olympic games in spite of the amount of debt that it can plunge them into is the opportunity to completely transform their infrastructure as ...
[Andrew D. Blechman is the author of Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (Grove Atlantic)] Imagine what America might look like if a sizable minority of its elders secede ...
Even today modern wonders of engineering like the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge inspire awe (and songs and works of art). A quick look at their origins, however, can turn awe to ...
(Check out our complete collection of Green Art, Design and Technology.) Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet's population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and ...
(Check out our complete collection of Underwater and Oceanic Oddities.) Who hasn't imagined living on their very own floating paradise? For those aboard ResidenSea, a permanent ocean-going ...
