Cities & Planning

As the city celebrates the event's 60th anniversary, we look back at plans that never happened — including a floating island, a huge dome and an Atlantic City-style boardwalk.

International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Office for Living Architecture (OLA), and non-profit organization GAL Terre del Po unveil The Tree Path, an elevated bicycle route that runs in-between trees, resting on two parallel rows of plants that act as pillars. Set in the Italian countryside, the project leads to Sabbioneta – one […]

Build your city, filling it with skyscrapers and utilities, but be sure to create the perfect layout, or those features might end up counting against your final score! Designed by Phil Walker-Harding

Water main ages reflect the nation’s growth

Archaeological research highlights how Indigenous communities practiced sustainable fishery management over thousands of years.

Plant-covered roofs have become a regular sight in Portland, Oregon. The city is a leader in incorporating green infrastructure for stormwater management, including free street trees, rebates for small residential housing footprints, and green roofs.

Koreana Mafune studies the rich diversity of canopy soils in the tops of old growth forests in the Olympic rainforest.

A heat battery based on salt and water is ready for its first real-world tests. Why could this be a 'game changer' in the energy transition?

The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.

The number of people — particularly younger Americans — looking for their own apartments is squeezing an already tight housing market. Here is how rents are going up in your area.

Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization?

BrightDrop and FedEx drove an electric van from NYC to DC—then let Ars have a try.

Explore nightly migration data in your region

Urban fabric - Designing Buildings - Share your construction industry knowledge. The term ‘urban’ relates to cities and settlements of high population and infrastructure density. Urban areas are distinct from rural areas which are more sparsely spread, often surrounded by open countryside or agricultural land, and with lower population densities. The Home Quality Mark suggests an urban area is one with a population of 10,000 people or more, located within a tract of predominantly built-up land.

Urban fabric is the physical form of towns and cities. Like textiles, urban fabric comes in many different types and weaves.

A palimpsest of history, politics, and art, a short film by Lisbon-based director João Pombeiro is an ode to the Midwest's largest city and its people. "Chicago" travels across time periods and neighborhoods in a poetic collage of community and culture: cutout photographs of children sit in fr

Since launching in 2011, Urban Fabric has created rugs of more than 30 cities, each with its own characteristic pattern. For about $7,000, one of them could be yours.

It’s part of a much bigger story about the challenge of cleaning up contaminated sites that don’t quite reach Superfund status.

Our newest development at King’s Cross will be a place for connection, community and entrepreneurship.

A project to restore a 1,000-year-old network of water channels is helping farmers in the Sierra Nevada adapt to the effects of the climate crisis

Only 6 streets in Portland are named after people of color. Given Oregon’s history, this is isn’t exactly unexpected, but I still find myself surprised at just how low the number is. Th…

The housing debate is an ongoing one and will likely always polarize - but for me, buying property just makes no sense. Mind you, this is here in Germany, where some unique factors tip the scale - and also a few of my personal concerns that play a role here. So, let me showcase some neat little