Ikea is building a London neighborhood
A 26-acre development called Strand East contains a mix of encouraging and worrisome features.read more
View ArticleBicycles in Rome
This dance of movement is what I always imagined a Dutch woonerf would be like — but I never dreamt that the center of a major metropolitan city full of flamboyant Romans could work this way.read more
View ArticleIn financially pinched Europe, billboards mar architectural treasures
Two years into its financial crisis, Europe "is facing a cultural calamity for which there is no emergency bailout fund,"The Washington Post reports. Billboards have been stretched across parts of...
View ArticleSprawl offensive in Vietnam
The US military may retreated from Vietnam in 1973, but nearly 40 years later American-style sprawl seems to have taken over, reports Michael Mehaffy in Urban Land. The southeast Asian country is...
View ArticleChina on the road to auto-dominated future
China is building the entire country around the automobile — making the same mistakes the US made in the last century only faster, warns urbanist Peter Calthorpe in a startling Foreign Policy article....
View ArticleCayala phase 2: Astonishing
The photo above is phase 2 — mixed-use buildings and a church tower — nearing completion in Cayalá, a new town in the suburbs of Guatemala City, Guatemala. I have to assure readers that the photo is...
View ArticleCan innovative transportation help 'the most dangerous city in the world'...
The physical beauty and many cultural and commercial institutions of Medellin, the second-largest city in Colombia, mask its well-earned reputation for violence.read more
View ArticleThe new urgency of 'thinking globally, acting locally'
The statistics are staggering. Over the next five decades, if present trends do not reverse dramatically, humanity is set to create more sheer volume of urban settlement than it has in all of human...
View ArticleA new French revolution
Cities insert high-quality transit systems into old urban and new suburban fabric, largely at the expense of space previously dedicated to automobiles. A new revolution is engulfing French cities,...
View ArticleUrban Design Elements for Cities in the MENA Region
Cities in North Africa, the Saudi Arabian peninsula, and the Levant face unique challenges from the tremendous heat and dusty winds of the surrounding desert and high humidity along coastal areas....
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