Urban Human Habitats: 13 Compact Concepts for Growing Cities
How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...
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Urban Superblocks: Barcelona Redesign to Reclaim Streets from Cars
Could ‘superblocks’ help Barcelona return to its late-19th-century vision of urban utopia, clearing out the snarled streets so mini neighborhood blocks can literally breathe? The rapidly ...
Get Booked: ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ by Geoff Manaugh
Take a break and enter the world of urban villains, who see and seek out hidden opportunities in built environments, forever on the lookout for architectural workarounds and infrastructural ...
Disused 15-Mile Railway to Become Country-Wide Park in Singapore
An ambitious infrastructure conversion project in Singapore will turn 15 miles of a abandoned rail corridor into a continuous mixed-use trail-and-park system stretching from one end of the ...
Building Up Iraq: World’s Tallest Skyscraper Planned for Basra
An ambitious proposal for a country in turmoil, this 3,780-foot building would be not only the tallest in the world but also taller than all structures currently in planning or under ...
Urban Ant Farm: Colony Encouraged to Hack City of Glass & Sand
In this Urban Ant City installation, hundreds of Spanish ants were set loose in a scale model of Rotterdam, allowed to navigate the existing street and carve their own paths and ...
Phantom City: Thousands Spot Towers Floating in the Clouds
When thousands of residents of the Chinese cities of Jiangxi and Foshan reported seeing a ‘floating city’ in the clouds earlier this month, theories attempting to explain it ran wild, ...
Amazing Aerial Photos of LA and NYC Reveal Urban Geometry
No matter how far and often you might wander around your city, there’s one way you most likely never get to experience it: from above. Approached from directly overhead, the bird’s-eye-view ...
Traffic Chop: 8 Creative Stencils for Dedicated Traffic Lanes
Seems everyone wants their own dedicated traffic lane these days... and it seems they're getting them! Is white line fever taking over your neighborhood? ...
Hilltop Village: Mini Neighborhood Tops a Green-Walled Store
Fittingly enough for a city that’s all about sprawl, this hilltop village concept for Los Angeles combines residential and retail functions in a way that preserves the conventional ...
