Future Cities

Most recent stories in Future Cities

• The sprawling cities of Africa and India are not like those in the West, and their urbanity can't be judged in the same way

  

  Kosmograd

  

  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 of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb galvanised the global discussion on overpopulation. …

• Kinshasa is predicted to grow to a population of 83 million by the end of the century

  

  Kosmograd

  

  The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?

  The Guardian - John Vidal

  Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an eco-disaster is by no means certain The 1960 street map of Lagos, Nigeria, shows a small western-style coastal city surrounded by a few semi-rural African villages. Paved roads quickly turn to …

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  Kosmograd

  

  Why does Alphabet want to build a city? To get more data, of course

  Wired UK - Emily Wright

  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, because …

• Beautiful illustrations of Soviet Constructivist icons

  

  Kosmograd

  

  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 …

• London as a mobile city

  

  Kosmograd

  

  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." …

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  Kosmograd

  

  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 of the polar circle, Norilsk is home to 177,000 people, many of whom are employed by the …