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Most Livable Cities 2015, Vienna Tops The List Again
Vienna, Austria remained at the top of Mercer’s Quality of Living Rankings in 2015, boasting the best quality of…
Here’s What Makes These 10 Cities The World’s Most Livable
From Vienna to Auckland, these are the cities with the highest quality of living, according to a new…
6 Ways To Grow Our Cities In A More Sustainable Manner
As we stand at the crossroads of urban development and environmental sustainability, the challenge of growing our cities…
Data Analytics: The Key to Delivering Smart Cities
Smart cities are interconnected networks of devices that collect, store, share, and communicate data all with an aim…
How 3D City Models Transform The Way We Design And Build Cities
A 3D city model is a digital model of urban spaces. It represents the visual and spatial features…
How Cities Can Combat The Dangerous Combination Of Extreme Heat And COVID
Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems like the record heat…
The World’s Top Cities Face Stiff Competition, Here’s Why
As concerns about geopolitics, demographics and climate change rise and technological advances redefine established city hierarchies, the attention…
Why Cities Rule The World
Cities are the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization — and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place.…
More Rain, More Development Spell Disaster For Some U.S. Cities
There’s more rain falling on some parts of the U.S. than there used to be, and many towns…
Copenhagen Mastermind Jan Gehl Isn’t Sold On ‘Smart’ Cities
Architect and planner Jan Gehl looks back on how he helped transform Copenhagen into one of the world’s…
How Slums Can Inspire The Micro-Cities Of The Future
Soon, one third of humanity will live in a slum. Our cities are at breaking point. Over 90%…
Smart Cities That Are Bastions For Tech Jobs, 2018
Smart city growth is at a tipping point, and there are plenty of jobs in security, analytics,…
16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
IF YOU THINK the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like…
Why Cities Are Where They Are
Politics and history aside, the single best place on Earth to build a city may be right where…
The Top 10 Best US Cities For Entrepreneurs
You might joke that entrepreneurs tend to live at their businesses. The level of dedication – regardless of…
Six Beautiful Cities We’ll Create 100 Years From Now
Utopia, a book by English statesman, lawyer and clergyman Thomas More (1487-1535), turns 500 years old this month.…
The Top 10 Most Liveable Cities In The World
The Economist Intelligence Unit, operating under parent media group, The Economist conducts research and analysis on countries and…
Top 20 Cities In The World For Cycling Lifestyle
THE BICYCLE MAKES sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around…
Healthy Cities Need Safe City Streets For City Children
Lamine Mahdjoubi, Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England challenged the audience:…
An Insightful Measure Of Progress & Equity In Cities
The unemployment rate for African American men and women in the U.S. is roughly double that of white…
Top 10 Economic Cities and How They Got There
These cities have thriving local economies, low unemployment and good job growth – and that’s not by accident.…
World Cities Day 2015 : Better City, Better Life
The United Nations has every 31st of October as World Cities Day. The Day is expected to greatly…
Liveable Cities : Who Decides What That Means And How We Achieve It
The Conversation has appointed a cities and policy editor to lead our coverage of the myriad issues affecting…
10 Best Student Cities In The World 2015
What makes a great student city? A whole mixture of things, including well-reputed universities, quality of life, employment…
How China’s Cities Can Curb Car Congestion
A century of car-centric urban development has left our cities polluted, congested and searching for sustainable solutions. Transport…
How Future Cities May Look More Like Natural Forest And Why It Matters
With its broad strokes of thinking and long-term implementation, urban planning isn’t the most exciting thing. But planning…
Using Low-Emission Zones To Improve Health In Cities
In May 2007, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, announced that the city would be implementing a city-wide…
World’s Best Cities For Coffee
When traveling, coffee lovers need to know where to go to escape the substandard American-style brew most hotels…
Are tiny homes the next big thing for cities?
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases — and as city officials try to make…
See The World Cities Explode In Size
The new Atlas of Urban Expansion maps out the past so cities can prepare for the future. By…
The World’s Healthiest Cities
What makes a city healthy? A combination of factors, ranging from readily available healthcare to excellent mass transit…
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
A First Look Into Our Future With Urban Forestry
We know intuitively that we need trees in our cities. They enhance the public realm, provide shade, cool…
How Sandtown, Baltimore Reinvents Itself With Community Planning
Across the United States thousands of once thriving working class neighborhoods are boarded up, but few are in…
15 Destinations To Inspire Your Next Runner’s High
For traveling fitness enthusiasts, sneaking in a jog while sightseeing is a treat of sorts. Transform your runner’s…
Well Done Vancouver! Well Done Planners!
Much of my life’s work is based on the optimistic assumptions that people are basically intelligent and so…
Smart AND Beautiful, Vienna
Vienna, the capital and largest city in Austria. Often ranked as the most livable city in the world.…
Infographics : East Asia’s Massive Urban Growth
If everyone who recently migrated to cities in the region were a country unto themselves, it would be…
Professor Michio Kaku visits THE LINE to learn about NEOM’s city of the future
Renowned physicist, best-selling author and television presenter professor Michio Kaku has visited NEOM’s flagship project THE LINE, in…
To Improve City Life, Plant These 17 ‘Super Trees’
A new study establishes live oaks and American sycamores as champions among 17 “super trees” that will help…
A City Dweller’s Guide To Loft Spaces
Lofts are no longer the bi-level bachelor pads for urbanites that they used to be. Nowadays, lofts are…
Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning…
The Plague Inspired Da Vinci To Design A City. We Should Steal His Ideas
The bubonic plague spread, in part, because of poor urban planning. Leonardo da Vinci came up with a…
Top Breakthrough Technologies For 2018 : Sensing City
Numerous smart-city schemes have run into delays, dialed down their ambitious goals, or priced out everyone except the…
How To Actually Make Parks Actively Liveable
Parks are central to the concept of liveable cities. They are an important public resource that provide opportunities…
An Ethical City : An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Or Has Long Been Delayed)
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central…
A Farmers’ Market’s Journey From Serving Affluence To The Masses
Before the city became infamous for its water, residents struggled with access to healthy food. One change made…
Vienna’s 7th Makes It Undeniably The Best City For Quality Of Life
Study examining socioeconomic conditions places Austrian capital at apex of index while London, Paris and New York fail…
10 Amazing Construction Technologies That Could Change The World
The effects of humans on the Earth are becoming more profound every day. Our energy consumption is higher…
The Uneven Terrain Of City Booms
Across the globe there is an urban resurgence. In fact, it is of such major and global significance…