Future Cities

By Kosmograd

Augmented landscapes, urban infrastructures, civic transformations, built environments

Is the way we think about overpopulation racist?
The Guardian - Fred Pearce
Half the world lives in urban areas, yet environmental concerns about megacities often focus on developing economies. But consumption is as important as population It is just 50 years since the publication
The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?
The Guardian - John Vidal
Bangalore is the worst city in the world for unchecked urbanisation TV Ramachandra, Indian Institute of Science The city stretches so far. It is like a new world where I know no one and nothing Tan returning
Why does Alphabet want to build a city? To get more data, of course
Wired UK - Emily Wright
Max-O-Matic Most people would probably draw a blank when asked to explain the phrase "building a city from the internet up". But get used to the idea, …
La città d’acciaio. Mosca costruttivista 1917-1937 120g
centoventigrammi.it - Novembre 2017
Federico Mara e Filippo Rossi Lo sviluppo vertiginoso che ha interessato la Russia nei primi decenni del ventesimo secolo ha visto fiorire numerose …
Peter Jackson's next epic turns London into a roaming killer city
Wired UK - James A W Dyson
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." …
A Toxic, Closed-Off City on the Edge of the World
The Atlantic - Emily Buder
Every day for two years, filmmaker Victoria Fiore tried to gain access to a toxic, closed city in Siberia with no ground transportation connections to the rest of the world. Located nearly 250 miles north
Make Bristol Shit Again
VICE - Angus Harrison
My hometown is becoming an extension of London, and losing its crappy edge. Every time I return to Bristol it feels like I've dragged more of London back with me. Pop-up bars in shipping containers are
What would an entirely flood-proof city look like?
The Guardian - Sophie Knight
The wetter the better. From sponge cities in China to ‘berms with benefits’ in New Jersey and floating container classrooms in the slums of Dhaka, we look at a range of projects that treat storm water
Cheesed off: Amsterdam to curb tourist shops amid visitor influx
The Guardian - Elle Hunt
New outlets largely catering to visitors, such as bike rentals, will be banned from the city’s historic centre Amsterdam is banning new shops targeting tourists in the city’s historic centre in the latest
Why is London's air so toxic?
Wired UK - Abigail Beall
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Take a deep breath, London. A startling recent report revealed that every single area of London exceeds the guidelines for a …
Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
The New York Times
Let’s skip the nationwide bidding war and cut right to the winner.
Amazon Plans Second Headquarters, Opening a Bidding War Among Cities
The New York Times - By NICK WINGFIELD and PATRICIA COHEN
SEATTLE — Wanted: A place with a million people, a diverse population, good schools and malleable lawmakers. Room to accommodate up to 50,000 workers. Canadian provinces also welcome to apply. Amazon the
The city that won't stop growing
bbc.co.uk
How can Lagos cope with its spiralling population? By Alastair Leithead 21 August 2017 The lagoon metropolis A thick layer of acrid, blue smoke hovers just above the waterfront slums that skirt Lagos filtering
If You Care About Cities, Apple's New Campus Sucks
WIRED - Adam Rogers
The new headquarters Apple is building in Cupertino has the absolute best door handles. The greatest! They are, as my colleague Steven Levy writes, …
BBC Scotland - BBC Scotland - The ‘ghost village’ of Polphail
bbc.co.uk
Scotland’s new TV channel, BBC Scotland, launches on Sunday 24 February 2019 at 7pm. Jodie Chalk’s national championship win was documented in The Racer. Their dance teacher believes make-up is important
The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburban
slate.com - Henry Grabar
One by one, the problems that America has long dismissed as “urban” have marched into the suburbs: crime, poverty, hunger, deindustrialization, drug …
Space-scraper: this high-rise hangs from an asteroid, suspended in Earth's atmosphere
Wired UK - Alexandra Simon-Lewis
New York-based Clouds Architecture Office has a history of developing complex and imaginative buildings. But it might have just surpassed itself with …
Tomorrow's cities: Are your shoes giving away data?
bbc.co.uk - By Jane Wakefield
Shops and retailers are taking over where street cameras left off, watching shoppers' every move. According to a 2015 survey of 150 retail executives from IT services firm Computer Services Corporation,
Instrumental City: The View from New York’s Hudson Yards, circa 2019
placesjournal.org - Shannon Mattern
The observation deck won’t be finished for a few years yet. If you want to see the future of New York, walk north along the High Line, round the …
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A City Is Not a Computer
placesjournal.org - Shannon Mattern
“What should a city optimize for?” Even in the age of peak Silicon Valley, that’s a hard question to take seriously. (Hecklers on Twitter had a few …
My village didn't even have a traffic light. Now it has 1.4 million people
The Guardian - Xiaolu Guo
When author Xiaolu Guo was a child in the 1980s, her village was a remote farming settlement. Now, like hundreds of others across China, it has become a metropolis with four-lane roads, a cancer epidemic
Philadelphia, PA
City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
theonion.com - The Onion
Palimpsest is bringing the ghosts of demolished buildings back to life
Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli
When three architecture researchers discovered that their London studio was going to be steamrolled - alongside several buildings nearby - to make …
Editorial: Notopia is a disease that prevents the creation of a self-sustaining socioeconomic human ecosystem
architectural-review.com - By Christine Murray
Notopia is not only how a city looks. It may be found even in an attractive metropolis, densely packed with fine buildings old and new, replete with …
The Worlds Longest Elevated Cycling Path Opens in China
archdaily.com - by Constanza Martínez Gaete
This month, in the city of Xiamen, China's first elevated cycling path was inaugurated. At nearly 8 kilometers long, the structure is now the world's …
This map claims it can predict crimes across London before they happen
Wired UK - Matt Burgess
Every time police across the UK attend an incident or make an arrest, it is logged. This information is stored online and the largest force in the …
The American suburbs as we know them are dying
Business Insider - Ashley Lutz
Look no further than the suburbs to see how American ideals of success are transforming. People in US suburbs are changing the way they shop, where they eat, and what they want in their homes. Malls are
What Should Cities Make?
CityLab - Amanda Kolson Hurley
President Trump is gung-ho about the U.S. producing more goods. But what, exactly, should cities be making in the 21st century? When President Donald Trump announced his Manufacturing Jobs Initiative month,
Audi Urban Future Initiative - Augmented Reality Table Map on CES2014
geoawesomeness.com - Aleks Buczkowski
The goal of cartographer is to create a spatio-temporal model of a certain phenomena and communicate it to the public in the most effective way. For …