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Key Developments: 10 Essential Diagrams Tell the Story of Modern Urban Design

For much of history, urban planning as we know it didn't exist. Sure, there were cities with zoning ordinances and building codes, but ones thoroughly planned from scratch with heavily controlled ...

Restyling Blandmarks: Those Much Maligned Boxy Urban Condo Buildings

From Seattle to New York City, Minneapolis to Dallas, boxy apartment and condo buildings sporting bland facades, metallic or colored cladding and a generally flat aesthetic seem to dominate new ...

Failure To Lunch: 7 More Closed & Abandoned Food Trucks

The truck stops here... stops serving, that is, and these closed and abandoned food trucks won't be serving anything soon unless it's as scrap metal. Van Green Visitors to the promenade and ...

Dispersed Hotel: Distributed Urban Suites Inspire Exploration of Historic Kyoto

It's a simple but powerful idea, spreading out and embedding hotel rooms into the urban fabric to give visitors a space from which to explore as well as a place that feels like it's more part of ...

Urban Forestry: Explore 678,632 Street Trees of NYC with Interactive Map

The NYC Parks Department offers an amazing resource in the form of an online map that "includes every street tree in New York City" (spanning 422 species) first mapped by volunteers in 2015 and ...

Abstract Geography: Huge Historical Map Spans Dutch Train Station Ceiling

Amidst the modern architecture and undulating spaces of this station in Delft, one design detail stands out above the rest: a huge abstracted version of a map from the late 1800s that connects ...

Out of Focus: Blurred Street Scenes Capture Cities as Cinematic Moments

Like stills from some rainy noir film, these paintings are deceptively realistic in part due to their abstraction -- unresolved details look like a trick of the lens rather than the work of a ...

Pigeon Portraiture: Photographer Highlights Beauty of Everyday Urban Bird

An oft overlooked wonder of the urban wilderness, the common pigeon is much more than it appears, with a rich history of aristocratic breeding dating back centuries. Photographer and ...

Zootopias: Forward-Thinking Zoos Designed to Advance Animal Welfare

Historically, zoos have been both productive and problematic for the animals they house, in some cases advocating for and publicizing real issues faced by species but also criticized for locking ...

Cyberpunk Furniture: City Streets Light Up Through Laser-Cut Wood Table

Iconic cities come to life in this custom wood table series, their resin streets and waterways glowing through grids of raised wooden architecture, all sitting on top of wrapping thin and dark ...

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