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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
America Is So Wasteful, Time To Use It To Its Advantage
A few cities are using leftovers to power buses and buildings. Americans funnel 40 percent of it into…
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
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…
2016-03-28
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
How Resilience Grows From The Roots Of Urban Design
In this article, inspired by the movement of open spaces in cities across the world and resilience theory,…
2016-03-18
While Apple & FBI Are Fighting, US DOT & Google’s Sidewalk Labs Are Partnering
U.S. DOT and Sidewalk Labs Partner in the Smart City Challenge; Sidewalk Labs to Create Flow, a Transportation…
2016-03-18
Lancaster 2065 : City Visions By Young & Old Shows A Way
Last year we asked young people to write and/or draw their ideas for what Lancaster will or should…
2016-03-17
Why Do We Keep Ignoring How Important Culture Drives Our Cities, Not Just Technology
How can you build a bridge without considering the impact on the communities it connects? There is a…
2016-03-17
The Proven & Obvious Benefits Of Selfless Driving For Less Traffic
It’s easy to see why motor cars are such a popular form of transport: they’re private, comfortable and…
2016-03-17
The 24/7 City And The Uncomfortable Balance We Need To Make
A city, especially in the global age, is active, night and day. Some cities particularly – New York…
2016-03-16
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:…
2016-03-16
Why A University Is A Reflection Of Its Cities And Vice Versa
Cities could increasingly take the lead on solving societal problems. Ed Glaeser, an economist at Harvard, famously said…
2016-03-16
The Obvious Need Technology Designed With Humanity
Cities are our future. Urban populations are growing globally and cities are the logical answer to using land…
2016-03-16
Future Cities & Societies Will Be Made With And Will Need New Skills
Today, the idea that data can play a key role in the design and management of cities is…
2016-03-16
Top 10 Feast-Worthy Ideas For Fresh, Local, And Affordable Food Markets
Scruffy and chaotic or orderly and refined, the world’s street markets offer fresh, local—and often cheap—seasonal produce, alongside…
2016-03-15
Why America May Wrongly Hate Those Roundabouts
Maps and data visualizations show the U.S. trailing much of the world when it comes to traffic circles.…
2016-03-15
Roofs Not The Only Place For Solar Panels, Try Floating Them As In London
Five years in planning and due to be finished in early March, more than 23,000 solar panels will…
2016-03-15
Cool Gelatos On Sticks, Who Would Have Thought
Shoppers at Metropolis at Metrotown now have another reason to visit the mall, thanks to newcomer Popbar, a New…
2016-03-15
In Cities, Ladies Congregate In Pink
Women—especially, young single ones—love cities. But they make up a bigger part of the population in some places…
2016-03-15