Cities & Planning

Smithsonian shares how mapping technology cuts through the canopy to identify ruins in the Amazon. So the team conducted airborne lidar mapping of six different areas, ranging in size from about 4 …

In Star Wars, the Skywalker family are introduced as "moisture farmers." On their desert planet, they somehow pull water out of the sky using towering metal structures, which sounds more sci-fi than placing buckets under in-window air conditioners. Researchers at UT Austin have developed a material that can actually

It opens its "petals" and follows the sun, like a sunflower

A single kilogram of this gel, made from cellulose and a food additive called konjac gum, can pull 3.4 gallons of drinking water daily from the driest desert air, say Researchers at the University …

Barcelona set up 163 climate shelters to help residents stay cool in the scorching summer months.

Contractors on the project include Matt Mead of U.S.-based hempcrete construction firm Hempitecture and Ross Grier, Bellingham Bay Builders. The hemp hurd supply for the project was provided from Dun Agro, Holland while Wolf Jordan & Associates, Belgium, is supplying additive for the hempcrete mix.

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Streets comprise more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide their surrounding communities with a space where people can safely walk, bicycle, drive, take transit…

Each spring, the Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi, Japan, is flooded with bright, blossoming canopies of purple flowers. The area is home to more than 350 wisterias, including one monumental specimen that's at least 150 years old, and hosts an annual festival that illuminates the lengthy tendrils aga

Photographer Kien Lam has been traveling the globe for over a decade. He spent 343 days before the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 shooting this spectacular

Over 3 years, I took my drone on most of my travels to add aerial footage to my short films. With the current state of the world and my travels on hold for the foreseeable…

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.

Your home's past events, current risks, and future projections based on peer-reviewed research from the world’s leading flood, fire, and climate modelers.

A new tool helps show how much risk your house or apartment—or a house you might want to buy—faces from wildfires.

Using annotated satellite imagery, historical redlining maps, and archival photos, Segregation by Design highlights 180 American cities decimated by racist planning.

It’s tempting to draw lines on a map, but we can’t forget that cities should be designed for the people who live there

A team from Italy has built the world's first - and only - underwater greenhouse, Nemo's Garden, which has already grown more than 100 different plants.

Cyberpunk 2077 (reviewed at Boing Boing) was, all told, a mammoth hit and ultimately a polished game. A good game, too, with solid FPS action and an amazing, sprawling, magnificent futuristic city …

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar? | Grist The amount of space available on the rooftops of Walmarts, Targets, Home Depots, Costcos, and other large stores and shopping malls in the...

Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Outside of that, lots short single family homes sprawl out in every direction. Residents looking for something in between an expensive house and a condo in a tall, generic tower struggle to find places to live. There just aren’t

Could commercially perennial crops like Kernza be regenerative agriculture's holy grail?

How energy disclosure could help lower renters' utility bills and tackle climate change.

The state hopes to secure up to $2 billion in federal funding to produce hydrogen fuel as a substitute for petroleum-based gasoline.

Harper's Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper's Index.

Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Technics’ (ADT). Mumford, who was an expert on cities and …

Our cities were designed to accommodate cars and the needs of men. It is time to build better ones. Here is how.