"Highways, houses and hedges" or "trains, towers and trees"? Vishaan...
Marc Norman reviews architect Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book A Country of Cities: a manifesto for an urban America, which celebrates the Manhattanisation of US cities as an economically rational...
View ArticleEcoMobility World Festival: Demonstrating the car-free lifestyle, in numbers...
If we can't build a truly ecomobile city, why not assemble a temporary one for a month? This is what the city of Suwon has done under the creative direction of Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, who explains the...
View ArticleHow cities are financing their own energy efficiency by making retrofitting...
New financial institutions and instruments created by cities such as New York, Melbourne and Berlin have made it easy for large building owners to retrofit their properties by financing projects...
View ArticleLSE Urban Age: Spatial planning one of few clear solutions for climate change
A well-planned response to the unprecedented expansion of cities may hold the key to responding to climate change and other challenges of the 21st century, as shown at the LSE Urban Age conference in...
View ArticleThe City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban...
The idea of empowering city governments is a thrown around a lot these days in urbanite circles. But where should the line between local and higher levels of government begin and end? Alia Dharssi...
View ArticleLittle Grids: how small-scale utilities could solve America’s infrastructure...
Eric Zachrison explores the merits of thinking small, instead of big, when it comes to planning for basic public services.
View ArticleWill small religious towns in India like Omkareshwar find a way to alleviate...
With tourism on top of the agenda of the new government of India, Chandan Chawla captures a glimpse of the infrastructure deficit in the religious town of Omkareshwar. While national and state tourism...
View ArticleA brief history of big plans for Tokyo Bay
In the post-war years, the Metabolists made big plans for Tokyo Bay to relieve the pressure on the Japanese capital. Now there's another plan, called Next Tokyo 2045. Herbert Wright explains that these...
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