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.

Instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable, writes Phineas Harper.

Planners want to plant trees to tackle climate crisis but often face a hostile urban environment

In the 13 years since Ties Carlier and his brother started their e-bike company, it has grown to over 1,000 employees but, he says, there is a lot more to do to improve urban environments

In California, and around the world, climate change is making extreme rain more likely. Here's how some cities are adapting.

The open streets of the pandemic reclaimed public space for pedestrians and bicyclists. From Bogotá to New York to Stockholm, some of those changes have become permanent.

The cities of science fiction are frequently portrayed as all-encompassing and self-contained structures, but how feasible is it build a colossal city in a building?

On a summer's day a trip in a hot tube train is a dreadful experience, but how did we end up with such hot tube trains, and what's being done about it?

The Netflix show Old Enough! offers a glimpse of an alternate reality.

Politicians and urban planners are betting on hyper-local living. But is it a path to urban utopia or just a fad?

Proof that we need to take action to fight the climate crisis now.

«1. Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2. Basra, Iraq 3. New Orleans, USA 4. Venice, Italy 5. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 6. Kolkata, India 7. Bangkok, Thailand 8. Georgetown, Guyana 9. Savannah, USA»

Urban planning is becoming ever more data-driven. Architecture expert Davina Jackson shares five books explaining the technology behind future cities.

«This was in 1995, when we had only just begun using email. The internet was being described as an ‘infobahn’.»

By 2025, the world’s population will reach over 8.1 billion people. Most of that population growth will be concentrated in cities across Africa and Asia. To help paint a detailed picture, this map

«The majority of the world’s fastest growing cities are located in Africa—in fact, 17 of the 20 are located on the continent, with four of the 20 cities being located in Nigeria specifically.»

Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to…

The hidden forces behind the success of some cities and not others

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.