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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 ...

Devil’s Lake: Abandoned North Dakota Town Reclaimed by Rising Waters

Over a period of decades, the waters of Devils Lake slowly rose higher and higher until they enveloped an entire farming town in rural North Dakota, forcing its inhabitants to leave. Changes to ...

Thin Facade: Old Small Town Storefront Folds Down into 100-Seat Theater

Walking down the vintage commercial strip of Lyons, Nebraska, it looks like any other building with shop windows and a front door, sharing walls with neighboring structures, but that's all a ...

Steely Look: Weathering Metal Forest Retreat Uses Mesh to Foster Greenery

Reddish-brown corten steel compliments surrounding dark browns and lush greens in this Ukrainian forest retreat, its horizontal planes pushing the building out to meet the surrounding ...

Roadside Lights: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Vending Machines at Night

It started on a cold and snowy night when a wandering Japanese photographer became fascinated by the way the white flakes were piling up on an ordinary vending machine on the side of a ...

California City: The Half-Built Desert Metropolis of the Golden State

It's the third-largest city in California by land area but most people (including many in CA) have never even heard of this mostly-empty desert oasis, home to around 15,000 people. It's not quite ...

Desert Farm Grows Food Without Groundwater, Soil, Fuel or Pesticides

Using the sun and the sea, renewable sources of energy and water, a desert farming operation in Australia shows how organic food can be grown in a fresh new and sustainable way. The soil-free ...

Grid Corrections: Rural Detours Reflect Curvature of the Earth

Driving along a straight highway in the American countryside, you may find yourself forced to turn right or left, then turn again just to keep moving ahead, all to compensate for a rectilinear ...

Last Stop: Japan Keeps Old Train Station Open for Lone Passenger

In a remote area of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, a train stops just twice a day, as it has for years: once to pick up a girl on her way to school, and once to drop her back off ...

Rural Retrofuturism: Dystopian Visions of Swedish Countrysides

Set in an alternate-reality Sweden of the 1980s and 90s, these stunning paintings remix pastoral landscapes with futuristic robots, telling a story of a world that could have been. Robots roam ...

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