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Mexico Is Poised To Ride The Nearshoring Wave
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Closer economic ties to the…
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
Megacity Slums Are Incubators Of Disease – But Coronavirus Response Isn’t Helping The Billion People Who Live In Them
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of…
Mexico Turns Highways Into Stunning Vertical Gardens
To fast-track development, most cities transformed greeneries into grey concrete roads and buildings. Mexico City attempts to colour…
What Poop Can Teach Us About An Ancient City’s Downfall
Never underestimate the power of poop. After more than 1,000 years, it can still have a lot to…
Fixing All The Most Annoying Parts Of City Life
From public brawls to garbage piles, cities are solving some long-standing nuisances. Street Fights Could the sweet smell…
A Walking Tour Of Quebec’s Old City
Four hundred years of history and culture literally fill the walls of Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec). This UNESCO world heritage treasure…
The 100 Million City : Is 21st Century Urbanisation Out Of Control?
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an…
What Would An Earthquake-Proof City Look Like?
Earthquakes don’t kill people (generally), collapsing buildings do – meaning it is cities where the most lives can…
In Mexico, Turning Art Into Architecture & Architecture Into Art
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in downtown Mexico, is the largest university in Latin America,…
Want A Cycling City? Design For Traffic Safety
The World Bicycle Forum in Medellín, Colombia last 2015 brought together more than 4,000 attendees from across the…
How Wellington Is Redefining What A Cool Windy City Is
The wind speed in this breeziest of cities once hit 154mph just a few miles from the centre,…
The Sounds Of The City Reflects Its Culture And Integrity. What’s Yours?
Researchers at MIT are asking people to record the sounds of their streets, which can reveal the social…
San Diego City Life In Pictures
Trolley Along Harbor Drive The San Diego Trolley runs along Harbor Drive in the downtown area. Trolleys…
What Is The City That Never Sleeps? All Of Them!
One’s experience of a city at night is always singular and intimate, especially when visiting for the first…
Cities Redefining What A Safe City Is
“Urban safety isn’t just about avoiding muggings. Sanitation, immigration and even air-traffic control all matter – often in…
What Is The Most Private City In The World?
The proliferation of high-security, privatised plazas is making parts of world cities such as London and Dubai reminiscent…
An Appetite For City Smog
Using a new type of tile that converts the chemicals in pollution into less toxic substances, the Torre…
Photos: I Heart Quebec City
Quebec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec. It’s name comes from Kébec, an Algonquin…
The Network City
“Only connect,” the writer E. M. Forster said famously — and modern scientists working with network structures are…
It Takes A Village: Defining Sustainable Infrastructure
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Infrastructure investments offer very concrete…
The World’s Next Megacities
By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020,…
The 10 Best Street Food Cities Of 2019
While some travel to learn or to immerse themselves in different cultures, some travel with a single mission…
Designing For Future Ready Cities
Engineering has always been about building for what lies ahead, creating lasting legacies in the form of extraordinary…
‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
The April 2019 fire that engulfed France’s Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, led to an outpouring of grief…
Intercultural Cities: “Diversity As An Advantage”
What do Barcelona, Montreal, Hamamatsu, Tanger, Haifa, Ballarat and Mexico City have in common? These cities manage diversity…
Is Russia Worthy Of Hosting The World Cup?
With the FIFA World Cup just days away, I have been chatting with people on my travels through central and…
Trees Help Cities Save Money – Here’s How
Megacities are on the rise. There are currently 47 such areas around the globe, each housing more than…
Why Good Hackers Make Good Citizens
Hacking is about more than mischief-making or political subversion. As Catherine Bracy describes in this spirited talk, it…
11 Cities Most Likely To Run Out Of Drinking Water – Like Cape Town
Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to…
Can The World’s Megacities Survive The Digital Age?
Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed countries, cities with populations of 10 million or…
The Top 10 Skyscrapers In The World Made Of Emptiness
There are many skyscrapers that sit empty, abandoned, or in ruin. Sometimes, they outlive their usefulness. Sometimes, they…
The Top 10 Booze Cities To Catch Up With Old Flames
There’s something thrilling about discovering a local watering hole and enjoying a hometown spirit after a long day…
“So Long, Diesel,” Said Four Cities
Four of the world’s biggest cities are to ban diesel cars from their city centres by 2025, in…
Top 10 Things To Know About The Day Of The Dead
We’ve all heard about the Day of the Dead or seen the classic sugar skull paintings—but what does…
For The Book Lover In You, The World’s Top 10 Bookshops
Feed your inner bookworm with these magnificent bookshops. Atlantis Books, Santorini, Greece A decade ago, a group of…
The Value Of Airports As Economic Regions
Airports have a lot of untapped economic potential due to their proximity and connectivity to other metropolitan city…
World’s Largest Air Purifier vs China’s Smog
Looking at most products being sold in the market today, chances are, you will read the label “Made…
Foodie Travelers Guide: 30 Best Food Cities In The World
What is the best part about traveling around the world aside from taking in the scenery and the…
A Tale Of Four World Cities Compared
These four cities – home to a total of more than 80 million people – respond to economic,…
How Transportation Nourishes And Shapes Urban Communities
It is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Denser cities and…
Fun Friday : Three Cities. Public Spaces. Street Pianos.
When walking in downtown Hangzhou, China, one can safely expect to see a healthy variety of pedestrians, traffic,…
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
How Leaders Led The Example On Sustainable Urban Mobility
It takes a combination of citizen support and top-down vision to create meaningful change in a city. While…
Come And Visit The 10 Most Admired Island Cities In The World
These unique, water-bound metropolises redefine urban living. No. 1 Trogir, Croatia Take an afternoon stroll with gelato…
Whoever Said America Lost Its Heart Is Wrong
Geographically, the top 15 winners represent a distinct advantage among heartland cities—though one could argue that the size…
How To Raise Awareness About Population Explosion
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to…
Cities For The Super-Rich
London has the highest concentration of the world’s wealthiest individuals, followed closely by Tokyo, Singapore, and New York,…
Blue, The New Black: What Is Driving Water Risk
The 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos identified water crises – flood, drought, and pollution – as the…
America’s Greenest Cities
“Being green isn’t just smart — it might even make you gorgeous.” Irene Lane, founder of ecotourism “concierge”…