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How Feral Animal Populations Reveal a City’s Hidden History

Cities are usually studied through archives, maps, monuments and photographs. But sometimes, the most revealing historical records have…

Why Silicon Valley Wasn’t an Accident

What Silicon Valley, Soho, and Dubai’s Design District actually have in common, and why creative clusters are engineered, not accidental.

Where Do Bicycles Live? The Hidden Infrastructure Behind the World’s Best Cycling Cities

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” Urban planner Enrique…

Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?

A manifesto for trickle-up politics. Memories of the power and peril

Bangkok’s Most Expensive Product Is Time

Traffic does more than delay journeys. It quietly reduces incomes, raises business costs and makes access to Bangkok’s opportunities…

City That Belongs to Everyone and Therefore No One

In the rubble of September 11, Steve Earle wrote a prayer for Jerusalem knowing exactly how foolish it would sound, and said it anyway

10 Most Magical Rainy-Day Cities for a Perfect Getaway

It is important not to let rain spoil the holiday because it can even help one create an unforgettable experience through misty streets…

Dear Hyderabad, You Raised Me Without Ever Knowing My Name

Growing up between traffic lights, test scores, and silent expectations

Cities Become Guilty by Association

On cities, memory, and misplaced guilt.

Why is Europe Melting?

The omega block phenomenon and its consequences.

Dwarka Underwater City: The Shocking Archaeological Discovery of Krishna’s Lost Kingdom

Dwarka: Exploring India’s Submerged Ancient City Through Underwater Archaeology

America at 250: Democracy Will Be Renewed from the Bottom Up

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, commentators are asking whether our democracy can recover from years of polarization, declining…

Delhi Metro Mein Aapka Swagat Hai — A Brief History of the Delhi Metro

Ankara’da NATO Zirvesi ve Sadece Misafir Geleceği Zaman Hatırlanan Yaşam Kalitesi

Ankara’nın protokol yollarında son günlerde tanık olduğumuz o hummalı telaş, aslında insanlığın en eski ve en istikrarlı yanılgılarından…

Why Walking in Almaty No Longer Feels Safe

I was recently visiting Almaty when I caught myself thinking that walking through the city has become noticeably less safe. There are…

Restoring Cities

Why a restorative economy shouldn’t stop at the forest.

Waste Takes Centre Stage in Soroti City

What People Get Wrong About Missing Home

The places we “miss” are usually edited versions of reality

Been a Year and So On

Merantau bagiku juga memiliki arti lari dari beberapa orang. Berpikir jika hidup tidak satu pulau dengan mereka akan membuatku merasa lebih…

Can EVs Help Solve Urban Heating?

As cities swelter under rapid global warming, can EVs — which emit over 80% less heat than combustion engines — be our saviour

Funding Flash

A land value tax can keep MD 355’s bus rapid transit on track

The Shared Secret of Small Towns and Big Cities

It’s a good time not to live in a suburb

Can Change Itself Become Urban Heritage?

A walk down Munich’s Kaufingerstraße

I Thought Istanbul Was Expensive — I Was Completely Wrong

When I first started planning my trip to Istanbul, I expected it to be another expensive tourist destination.

From Data to Action: Building Europe’s Next Generation of Urban Environmental Sensor Networks

Across Europe, cities are making unprecedented investments in environmental monitoring. From air quality sensors and weather stations to…

paris la vie

wonder | wander | women are lucky to have been to some of the world’s iconic cities: Rome, New York, London, Paris. These are cities we…

Cómo elegir locales comerciales en Pereira (guía Metro X Metro)

En Pereira el precio por metro cuadrado puede duplicar el valor entre zonas: en nuestro análisis Metro X Metro Cerritos llegó a $112.260/m²…

Pecks and The City

The city, and the way it pecks me, as how the merriam-webster describes it

Postcard Time Capsule 50 — Main Street, Cortland, New York

Americana through the decades

The City Forgot the Slow Body

A sidewalk is not leftover space. It is where public life begins.

Proximity as Performance: How the 15-Minute City Brief Is Rewriting Mixed-Use Density, Zoning…

Sustainable & Green Architecture · Post 87 of 95 Written for architects who are not waiting to see where the industry goes.

From Runway to City The New Expectations of Modern Travelers

Travel has changed dramatically over the past decade. While travelers once focused primarily on flights, accommodations, and destinations…

The Post-COVID City: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

The COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point for cities around the world.

These Five Cities Have Been Fucked

A helping of largely unsubstantiated opinion

The Industrial Inheritance: How Structural Diagnostics, Embodied Carbon Banking, and Adaptive…

Sustainable & Green Architecture · Post 84 of 95 Written for architects who are not waiting to see where the industry goes.

Why Some Cities Stay With Us Long After We Leave

The psychology of place, belonging, and the cities that quietly change how we see the world.

I Thought This Was Normal Until I Left the United States

You don’t understand quality of life until you’ve experienced something different.

How Paris Triumphed Over Air Pollution (and Cars)

Major air pollution episodes, a powerful car lobby, and one campaigning mayor — the winner wasn’t inevitable

Harnessing indigenous wisdom for transformative urban development.

At present, urban India resembles a knot that tightens with every pull. While it has made great strides in infrastructure and technology…

Is the City Making You Sick? It Starts in Your Gut

The invisible cost of urban living: the fading diversity of the microbiome and its connection to the mind

Magayon

it was here i learned it was enough to simply gaze at the beauty and radiance of a being with rather than collapse as i walked your kind…

Postcard Time Capsule — 39 Pan Am/MetLife Building, New York City

An economic engine flies to new investments

Listen to the Qualia!

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

A cidade está aqui fora

Um texto sobre centros urbanos, reabilitação, moradia e a parte menos visível da disputa: as regras que definem quem permanece. Versão…

Financing the Living City. How Regenerative Finance can rewire our Urban Future

Our economic systems and particularly those shaping our cities have been designed to extract value, not to regenerate it.

The Street as Infrastructure: How Transit-Oriented Typologies, 15-Minute City Briefs, and Mobility…

Sustainable & Green Architecture · Post 77 of 95 Written for architects who are not waiting to see where the industry goes.

Vedi Napoli e Poi Muori

“See Naples and Die”

Co-creating science for climate-resilient cities: the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative

Written by Miriam Avins & Ben Zaitchik, with contributions from the BSEC research team

The Lies America Tells About The Rest Of The World

The United States systematically understates how good life can be elsewhere

Reading the City: Why Architecture Is Muted in Large-Scale Transformations

Written by Arch. Işıl Yıldız