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Urban
11 posts
How 18 Million Americans Could Move Into Rural Areas – Without Leaving Home
About 46 million Americans – 14% of the nation’s inhabitants – are currently classified as living in rural…
2021-03-11
Why COVID-19 Won’t Kill Cities
For those of you who live in cities, ask yourself: What it is about your urban lifestyle that…
2021-01-29
What Do States Have Against Cities, Anyway?
For as long as there have been cities and state legislatures in this country, the cities have complained…
2018-11-09
How To Make A New City Feel More Like Home
Sometimes life necessitates moving to a brand-new city; other times it might be entirely your choice. Whatever the…
2018-08-31
The Transportation Problem No One Is Talking About
Right now, most self-driving cars–like those being developed by Google or Uber–can only operate in very limited urban…
2018-05-24
Why Suburban Tensions & Inequality Will Drive Infrastructure Innovation
The global trend towards suburbanisation and suburbanisms (meaning suburban ways of life) has an important infrastructure dimension. In both growing and…
2017-08-25
How Cities Can Evolve Through Architecture
“What we’ve learned about modern cities in China was always from the West. But after 30 years of…
2016-12-14
Chicago’s History With Smart Sewage Management To Power Future
Chicago’s wastewater authority plans to slash its energy bill by using bacteria to convert sewage into natural gas.…
2015-11-20
Building Infrastructure That Cleans The Air
Barcelona is building a traffic bridge out of pollution-neutralizing concrete. Chicago has paved a road with it. Could…
2015-06-18
Urban Design == Service Design
High-speed data and mobile communications technology is allowing us to think differently about how we plan and develop…
2015-05-09
What Bacteria Can Do For Your City
Many of us are accustomed to observing our world on the scale permitted by our eyes. Unless its…
2015-03-05