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Is Sydney’s Hot Day Runs A Pattern For Its Future
Sydney is hot. Well technically, it’s persistently warm and lacking cool outbreaks, but this run of weather is…
2016-04-26
For A Country Wasting So Much Food, Why IS USA, Food Insecure
New data highlights the need to strenghten policies that ease access to a basic necessity. Food insecurity in…
2016-04-26
Is A 100-Year Global Record Enough To Convince Naysayers?
Average global temperature was 1.07C hotter – beating last month’s previous record increase. The global temperature in March…
2016-04-26
The Rise Of The Robots May Make Real Start In Groceries Near You
If you think that it’s hard to remember where all your favorite products are in the local grocery…
2016-04-25
Mobile Big Data Discoveries Show Social Segregations In Hong Kong
There’s plenty to learn about where residents travel each day, and with whom they choose to interact. Inequality…
2016-04-25
How The Fall Of Supermarkets & Suburbia Starts With Millenials
How does an industry that historically catered to white suburbanites reinvent itself to attract more diverse shoppers? Millennials…
2016-04-25
Remember ANZAC And The World’s Courageous Fallen
The first Anzac Day didn’t include a dawn service or the wearing of poppies; those traditions were yet…
2016-04-25
The Queen At 90
April 21st marks the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. Here are some images throughout her long reign.…
2016-04-21
How Portland Is Paving Ways For The Safest Cyclist Intersections
Researchers at Portland State hope to be the first to develop standard guidelines for protected bike lane crossings.…
2016-04-21
The Ancient Bridge That Claps In Somerset
In the lonely moors of Devon and in other upland areas of the United Kingdom, the ancient people…
2016-04-20
World’s 100 Biggest Cities Will Eat Up Half The Whole World
A new study shows how the largest cities in Asia and North America will power the worldwide economy…
2016-04-19
In Copenhagen, An Art Gallery That Was Once A Cistern Of Hope & Life
Buried beneath Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, in Copenhagen, is a massive underground space that…
2016-04-19
Modern Cities Began Like Blackhouses In Settlements Around Scotland
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called…
2016-04-18
To Pave Or Not To Pave, That Is The Question Edinburgh
Edinburgh is setting aside £1 million ($1.4 million U.S.) to repair worn-down cobblestone streets, reports Edinburgh News, and…
2016-04-18
How To Build A Road Tunnel Like A Zipper In 1 Day
In the same way you zip up your jacket, the “zipper truck” quickly assembles tunnels and archways by…
2016-04-18
A New Map, A New Take, And A Renewed Hope For World’s Poorest
When 70% of the world’s poorest people live in nations defined as middle income, it’s time for change.…
2016-04-18
Urban Gardens, A Future For Our Society’s At-Risk People
In 2008, the Pew Center on the States reported that Vermont, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut, and Delaware spent more money on…
2016-04-15
The Promise Of City Scale Government As It Should Be
For residents of Australia’s cities, federalism means state governments have the right to assert what is in their…
2016-04-15
Enriching Youth Education, One Potato At A Time
Gardening is about as popular with most head teachers as showing DVDs on a Monday morning. But children…
2016-04-15
Japan’s Largest & Sacred Cemetery With 200,000 Monks Buried
In a peaceful wooded area of Wakayama Prefecture, south of Kyoto and Osaka, lies the ancient village of…
2016-04-14
Russia’s Inspiration For Its Iron Curtain, Its Secret Iron City
Designed for Stalin as the world’s first completely planned city, Magnitogorsk has yet to confront its controversial past…
2016-04-14
London Is The World’s Best City? Nature Or Nurture?
Are great places created, or do they just happen? This question is receiving a great deal of attention…
2016-04-13
The Promise Of Youth Weighed Down By Its Environment
Researchers tracked hundreds of students in Baltimore to find out what top achievers had that others didn’t. Despite…
2016-04-13
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,…
2016-04-12
Making Your Cities More Beautiful With Living Heritage
Architects, urban planners and government policymakers often aspire to make Australian cities more like Copenhagen. But, for issues…
2016-04-12
“The World’s Longest Bridge” Is Now In The USA, Not “Just” Asia
If you look at the list of the longest bridges in the world, you will notice that the…
2016-04-08
If You Think You Are Obsessively Organized, Think Again With These
The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States, the largest of all museums of the…
2016-04-06
The Starter Kit Guide To Houston-Speak & What It Means
Houstonians are pretty nice (at least to your face). So while the majority of conversations around here are…
2016-04-05
Seattle’s Ironic Solution To Save Farmland With Taller Condos
There are unseen upsides to the sea of cranes stacking new apartment buildings in Seattle’s South Lake Union…
2016-04-05
How The Storied Australian Dollar & Banking System Got To Now
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Changeover day: when Australia swapped from pounds to the new decimal…
2016-04-05
Portland’s Leading Ways Invests In Minority & Women Entrepreneurs
Often referred to as the “Whitest City in America,” Portland, Oregon, has made concerted efforts in recent years…
2016-04-01
How Bartering Unites Our Culture & Cities, Then & Now
If you thought barter system was passé, you’re probably mistaken. Because, it’s been here for quite a long…
2016-03-31
A Winning Skyscraper Design, Done Upside Down
Imagine standing on the edge of New York’s Central Park and looking down into a 1.3-sq mile (3.4-sq…
2016-03-31
Bringing Back Medieval Medicinal Gardens To The Future
It’s full of lush medicinal plants—and no, marijuana is not one of them. While some people swear by…
2016-03-31
Portland Park Perspectives By People And For People
The National Park Service’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program plans to dole out $15 million to cities to…
2016-03-30
Fukushima, Five Years, Fears, Fall Out, And The Future
Five years have passed since a massive tsunami washed over the seawall around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power…
2016-03-30
The Highs & Lows of Youth Unemployment In (USA / World)
Young people were twice as likely to be out of work last year, according to new data. It’s…
2016-03-28
Brand New Market By New Entrepreneurs In New Orleans
The entrepreneurs behind a European-style food hall that revived a historic New Orleans building are planning to bring…
2016-03-28
From West To East And Back For Architecture’s Leading Light
Will American cities learn to love China’s best homegrown architect? Ready or not, here he comes. At just…
2016-03-28
How Roads, Walksheds, & Watersheds Unite In Portland
One street size does not fit all neighborhoods, because carrying traffic is not the sole function of a…
2016-03-23
Your Starter Kit For Your Own Urban Farm In Singapore
Don’t let limited space stop you from growing your own produce. Farming in Singapore is no longer limited…
2016-03-22
Big Old-School Companies Going Big On Solar & Wind Energy
A who’s who of the corporate world is turning to renewables, notably wind, as they make massive new…
2016-03-22
Cloud Computing Which Was Never Really In The Sky, Goes Underwater
The ocean’s cooling properties and energy potential led Microsoft to run a cloud center there for 105 days.…
2016-03-21
New York City Neighborhood, A Precursor To America’s Urban Future
When you exit the elevated number 7 subway at the 74th Street station in the Jackson Heights section…
2016-03-21
Hopefully, New Urban Highways Learn From Mistakes Of The Past
As plans advance for the Interstate 49 Connector, Lafayette, Louisiana, might soon find out. Lafayette, Louisiana, shouldn’t have…
2016-03-21
Wow! Crops Can Surely Grow On Moon & Mars!
When and if colonists ever arrive on Mars, they’re going to need something to eat … on a…
2016-03-18
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…
2016-03-18