Kosmograd Is the way we think about overpopulation racist?The Guardian - Fred PearceHalf 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
Kosmograd The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?The Guardian - John VidalBangalore 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
Kosmograd Why does Alphabet want to build a city? To get more data, of courseWired 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 …
Kosmograd La città d’acciaio. Mosca costruttivista 1917-1937centoventigrammi.it - 120g Lo sviluppo vertiginoso che ha interessato la Russia nei primi decenni del ventesimo secolo ha visto fiorire numerose scuole e movimenti artistici …
Kosmograd Peter Jackson's next epic turns London into a roaming killer cityWired 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." …
KosmogradPlay button The Toxic City of Norilsk, Russia: 'My Deadly Beautiful City'The Atlantic - Emily BuderEvery 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
Kosmograd Make Bristol Shit Again - VICEVICE - Angus HarrisonMy 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
Kosmograd What would an entirely flood-proof city look like?The Guardian - Sophie KnightThe 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
Kosmograd Cheesed off: Amsterdam to curb tourist shops amid visitor influxThe Guardian - Elle HuntNew 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
Kosmograd Why is London's air so toxic?Wired UK - Abigail Beall A startling recent report revealed that every single area of London exceeds the guidelines for a dangerous type of air pollution, in the form of tiny …
Kosmograd Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for YouThe New York Times Let’s skip the nationwide bidding war and cut right to the winner.
Kosmograd Amazon Plans Second Headquarters, Opening a Bidding War Among CitiesThe New York Times - By NICK WINGFIELD and PATRICIA COHENSEATTLE — 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
Kosmograd The city that won't stop growingbbc.co.ukA thick layer of acrid, blue smoke hovers just above the waterfront slums that skirt Lagos lagoon, filtering out sunrise and sunset. This man-made mist that clings to the rusted shack rooftops comes from
Kosmograd If You Care About Cities, Apple's New Campus SucksWIRED - 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, …
Kosmograd BBC Scotland - BBC Scotland - The ‘ghost village’ of Polphailbbc.co.ukCredit reports can have an enormous impact on your personal finances. OS Explorer 440 covers Glen Cassley and Glen Oykel in the Highlands. Some questions from Scotland’s National 5 qualification to test
Kosmograd The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburbanslate.com - By Henry Grabar Cities will weather this concentrated economic downturn because they went through it 50 years ago. Their neighbors may not be so lucky. One by one, …
Kosmograd Space-scraper: this high-rise hangs from an asteroid, suspended in Earth's atmosphereWired 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 …
Kosmograd 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.
KosmogradNew York University Instrumental City: The View from New York’s Hudson Yards, circa 2019placesjournal.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 …
Kosmograd A City Is Not a Computerplacesjournal.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 …
Kosmograd My village didn't even have a traffic light. Now it has 1.4 million peopleThe Guardian - Xiaolu GuoWhen 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
Kosmograd City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Againtheonion.com - The Onion DES MOINES, IA—Saying that his designs felt oddly familiar as he was drafting them, urban planner William Reston confirmed Monday that while …
Kosmograd Palimpsest is bringing the ghosts of demolished buildings back to lifeWired UK - Gian Volpicelli When three architecture researchers discovered that their London studio was going to be steamrolled - alongside several buildings nearby - to make …
Kosmograd Editorial: Notopia is a disease that prevents the creation of a self-sustaining socioeconomic human ecosystemarchitectural-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 …
KosmogradPlay button The Worlds Longest Elevated Cycling Path Opens in Chinaarchdaily.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 …
Kosmograd This map claims it can predict crimes across London before they happenWired 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 …
Kosmograd The American suburbs as we know them are dyingBusiness Insider - Ashley LutzLook 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
Kosmograd What Should Cities Make?CityLab - Amanda Kolson HurleyPresident 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,
Kosmograd Audi Urban Future Initiative - Augmented Reality Table Map on CES2014geoawesomeness.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 …
