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New York
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Cities For The Super-Rich
London has the highest concentration of the world’s wealthiest individuals, followed closely by Tokyo, Singapore, and New York,…
2015-06-08
The Best Active Designs That Help People Live Healthier Lives
Design influences our health and quality of life, for better or worse and in ways we might not…
2015-05-19
Mapping The Age Of Every Building In Manhattan
A tool called Urban Layers tracks Manhattan’s rise, block by block, since 1765. The Harlem Renaissance was the…
2015-05-16
NYC PLANS TO GIVE RESIDENTS $70 MILLION WORTH OF WI-FI
In an effort to further bridge the New York City’s digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending…
2015-05-15
A Sky Portal From Subway Depths
The centerpiece of New York’s New Fulton Center, the Sky-Reflector Net recalls an era when transit design aspired…
2015-05-11
10 Most Walkable Cities In America
Cities that make life easier for pedestrians are, to many, better places to live. Studies have shown that…
2015-04-30
Data And Stories Beneath Citi Bikes That Never Sleep
When Ben Wellington started teaching statistics to urban planners at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning, he tried…
2015-04-24
NYC Underrated Basic Human Right, Public Drinking Water
Water as a liquid has no shape. It acquires definition from its surroundings, providing boundaries and edges to…
2015-04-23
On The Future Of Architecture – Bjarke Ingels
The puckish Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has built his career on defying convention and distancing himself from his…
2015-04-23
What Your City Would Look Like In Tron
Stacks of geometric blue shapes represent skyscrapers. Cars become shooting yellow dashes moving across the landscape. Undeveloped land…
2015-04-17
Throwback Thursday : Forgotten Plans For NYC Worth Looking Into
New Yorkers can be thankful that some of the “great ideas” of past visionaries never made it into…
2015-04-16
When Do The World’s Best Cities Go To Sleep?
24-hour transport, late shopping and bars without lockouts are key to a global city. But some of the…
2015-04-14
Gunshots In New York? It’s Being Watched (Or Heard).
New York City is the latest city to implement gunshot detection system ShotSpotter, on a trial basis in five…
2015-04-09
From Dawn To Dusk : Timeslice Images Of Cities
Dan Marker-Moore, aka DANOR.ST, is an aerial photographer who captures awe-striking vistas from bi-planes, helicopters, drones, and even…
2015-04-08
Landscape Essential For Healthier Cities
The state of the nation’s health is rarely out of the news, and much has been written about…
2015-04-07
Big Apple. Big Cities. Big Data.
In mid-2011, New York found itself gripped by a series of horrible tragedies: Five people, including several children,…
2015-04-06
New York’s New Endangered Resource
‘Supertall’ buildings are sprouting like beanstalks in central New York, costing its citizens precious sunshine and air, and…
2015-03-12
The World’s Safest Cities
Asian and European cities come out on top. At number 10, New York City is the safest in…
2015-03-06
Frozen Apple : New York Winter 2015
During the past weeks severe snowstorms and freezing temperatures enveloped the city of New York in snow and…
2015-03-03
Rethinking High-Rise Living In New York City
Behind every great apartment building is a structural system, and in cities, it’s usually steel or concrete. But…
2015-02-23
Dealing With Blizzards In Major US Cities
Whether two inches or two feet, snowfall can wreak havoc on a city – as residents of Atlanta…
2015-02-13
Day-Night Cityscapes In Pictures
US photographer Stephen Wilkes spends 15 hours perched on a rooftop or crane photographing each city from one…
2015-02-12
Smartphone: The Transport Innovation Of The Decade
In a previous New York City mayoral election, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis bragged that he was the only…
2015-02-06
What Does it Mean to Rebuild a City?
108 years ago, San Francisco was hit by a major earthquake, sparking fires that decimated the city. In…
2015-01-30
A Guide To Safer Streets and Simple Rules – Courtesy of New York City
In the past decade or so, New York has seen a considerable decline in traffic fatalities (30 percent…
2015-01-30