Future Cities
By Kosmograd | Augmented landscapes, urban infrastructures, civic transformations, built environments
Is the way we think about overpopulation racist? | 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<p>It is just 50 years since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb galvanised the global discussion on overpopulation. …
GeographyThe 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?
Bangalore is the worst city in the world for unchecked urbanisation TV Ramachandra, Indian Institute of Science<p>The city stretches so far. It is like a new world where I know no one and nothing Tan Guo, returning resident<p>African cities cannot become sustainable by building roads. They must embrace …
GeographyWhy does Alphabet want to build a city? To get more data, of course
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 …
Smart CitiesLa città d’acciaio. Mosca costruttivista 1917-1937 120g
<i>Federico Mara e Filippo Rossi</i><p>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
"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." …
EnginesA Toxic, Closed-Off City on the Edge of the World
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 …
Make Bristol Shit Again
My hometown is becoming an extension of London, and losing its crappy edge.<p>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 spreading like moss. The network of underpasses in town, which used to be haunted by a piss-stench …
What would an entirely flood-proof city look like?
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 as a resource rather than a hazard<p>They call it “pave, pipe, and pump”: the mentality that has …
New JerseyCheesed off: Amsterdam to curb tourist shops amid visitor influx
New outlets largely catering to visitors, such as bike rentals, will be banned from the city’s historic centre<p>Amsterdam is banning new shops targeting tourists in the city’s historic centre in the latest attempt to reclaim it for residents.<p>The city government announced on Thursday that ticket …
Why is London's air so toxic?
Take a deep breath, London.<p>A startling recent report revealed that every single area of London exceeds the guidelines for a dangerous type of air …
PollutionDear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
Let’s skip the nationwide bidding war and cut right to the winner.
Amazon Plans Second Headquarters, Opening a Bidding War Among Cities
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.<p>Amazon took the unusual step on Thursday of announcing it wants a second home outside Seattle, starting …
The city that won't stop growing
How can Lagos cope with its spiralling population?<p>By Alastair Leithead<br>21 August 2017<p>The lagoon metropolis<p>A thick layer of acrid, blue smoke hovers just above the waterfront slums that skirt Lagos lagoon, filtering out sunrise and sunset.<p>This man-made mist that clings to the rusted shack rooftops …
AfricaIf You Care About Cities, Apple's New Campus Sucks
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 - BBC Scotland - The ‘ghost village’ of Polphail
“I love meeting new people – it’ s just brilliant to be a part of.”<p>Each week, HMP Edinburgh’s Christian chapel transforms into a musalla for Friday prayers.
Cities Will Weather the Retail Apocalypse. Suburbs May Not Be So Lucky.
One by one, the problems that America has long dismissed as “urban” have marched into the suburbs: crime, poverty, hunger, deindustrialization, drug …
Urban DesignSpace-scraper: this high-rise hangs from an asteroid, suspended in Earth's atmosphere
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?
<b>Shops and retailers are taking over where street cameras left off, watching shoppers' every move.</b><p>According to a 2015 survey of 150 retail executives from IT services firm Computer Services Corporation, a quarter of all British shops and 59% of fashion retailers use facial recognition software.<p>Such …
Mexico CityInstrumental City: The View from New York’s Hudson Yards, circa 2019
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 …
A City Is Not a Computer
“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
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 … and even a new language<p>I grew up in a semi-tropical southern village, and that village grew …
City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
DES MOINES, IA—Saying that his designs felt oddly familiar as he was drafting them, urban planner William Reston confirmed Monday that while …
Palimpsest is bringing the ghosts of demolished buildings back to life
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
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
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 …
Bike LanesThis map claims it can predict crimes across London before they happen
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
Look no further than the suburbs to see how American ideals of success are transforming.<p>People in US suburbs are changing the way they shop, where they eat, and what they want in their homes.<p>Malls are shutting down as e-commerce continues to take over, and the casual-dining chains that fed shoppers …
Real EstateWhat Should Cities Make?
President Trump is gung-ho about the U.S. producing more goods. But what, exactly, should cities be making in the 21st century?<p>When President Donald Trump announced his Manufacturing Jobs Initiative last month, he was moving forward on a promise he made over and over during his campaign: to make …
Urban DesignAudi Urban Future Initiative - Augmented Reality Table Map on CES2014
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 …
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