Nobody knows the needs of a city better than the residents who navigate it each day, so who better to edit, adapt and upgrade urban spaces to make them cooler and more useful? Urban ...
To people of 100 or even 50 years ago, the metropolises of today would look utterly foreign. Our elevated highways, massive airports, high population density and huge skyscrapers would be ...
When urban planners and developers want to know what businesses local residents would like in their neighborhoods, where to put new bike lanes, or specific areas in need of revitalization, who ...
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 ...
Street lights are a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape - so much so that most of us hardly notice their presence at all. What would happen if improving the aesthetics, functionality and ...
The carefully-crafted streets and avenues of the suburban neighborhood rarely strike anyone as artistic, though they do demonstrate a certain orderly attractiveness. The artwork of Ross Racine ...
According to futurists, the likelihood that humans will one day have to move off of the land and into the oceans at some point is high. Population growth, climate change and limited resources ...
Can you control a crowd with nothing more than an optical illusion? A group of researchers at Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications think so. They are developing a lenticular lens sidewalk ...
We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we climb into a car and take a journey, whether it's down the street for a jug of milk or across the country for a great adventure. ...
How can urban planners allow city officials, architects, builders and neighborhood residents to collaborate equally on new development projects? Online gaming. An unprecedented new program ...
