February 6, 2013
Data is becoming the designer’s new best friend. Urban designers, architects, and landscape architects – whether they’ve realized it yet, or not – will soon be integrating massive sets of data into every design they do.
January 29, 2013
When urban infrastructure meets nature’s designers, amazing things can happen
January 21, 2013
The therapy that may one day allow paraplegics to walk.
January 16, 2013
The urban reinvestment and renewal efforts of the last half-century left a legacy of neglect and underinvestment in many American cities. Now that pattern is shifting.
September 20, 2012
How police and media helicopters navigate the crowded airspace of L.A. when a suspect's on the run.
September 5, 2012
To understand and compare modern metropolises, city borders just don't cut it.
November 29, 2011
The elaborate motion-capture animation in Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Adventures of Tintin, belies the simple lines of the original Belgian comic books.
September 15, 2011
Eight different ways to measure and think about what makes a city.
August 22, 2011
Want to outfit your home with the edgiest in eco-tech? Just ask engineer Jerry Yudelson.
August 22, 2011
The Windy City’s first net-zero-energy home employs a butterfly roof and other smart design ideas to help it unplug from the grid.