The Best Articles in Future Cities

Even though cities have been centers of culture, ideas and industry since the Neolithic Revolution 12,000 years ago (!), today’s urban-centric global civilization is just a couple of hundred years …

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«The growing awareness of the impact of the built environment on our health is one reason for the growth of trauma-informed design»

As COVID-19 makes density a danger, we look at what's in store for cities.

‘The Ideal City’ collects the most successful urban ideas from around the world, to serve as a sort of cookbook of best practices for city leaders.

In the future, cities that survive climate change could be full of green spaces, smart buildings, and compact neighborhoods.

My night in front of the world’s largest LED screen

Americans will never create communities like the British

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon…

Six ingredients for a more resilient future

The ground under New York City is sinking 1-2mm per year, partly due to the sheer mass of all the buildings but it isn't the only city to be suffering – what can be done to save them?

Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.

Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it…

Spatial computing: What designers can learn from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities to design for AR and VR

«By rearranging the elements, like combinations and permutations, you can construct dozens of cities with different characteristics.»

Cities aren’t going anywhere, but they do need to change.

To twist a French idiom, now it’s vélo, boulot, dodo—bike, work, sleep.

The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller. Here's how we can do it.