Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...
Electricity substations, bathrooms and other less-than-aesthetically pleasing public buildings can stand out as eyesores on the street, taking away from the beauty of their surroundings. Dutch ...
Could a utopian dream of a crime-free private city actually bring fears of fictional dystopia to life? Developers are currently building a white-walled 34-acre complex of apartments, shops, ...
City dwellers are bombarded each day with the demands of advertisers, government, media and other groups that dominate communication, and their own voices can be lost in the din. Signs, images ...
New York City is one of America's greatest man-made achievements, but how can we protect and preserve it for future generations with inevitably rising seas and increasingly frequent weather ...
It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...
Each city is as different, and as beautiful, as we are. That's the sentiment behind 'Metropolitan Cityscapes', beautifully complex city maps with the negative space around the streets ...
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 ...
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 ...
Have you ever asked for directions in an unfamiliar city, only to find that you've been pronouncing the street name all wrong? It's not hard to do even in a place that speaks your own language, ...
