Classifying the Built Environment: Zones, Urbanicity, Transects, and Trends
Each day countless commuters trek through the commuter zone to the CBD, from T3 to T6, from “MSA but not in a central city” to “central city of an MSA,” from »
Swedish Lessons in Sustainability: Hammarby Sjöstad
Earning the ‘European Green Capital’ title in 2010, Stockholm has become an exemplar city for sustainable urban development. However, it is not only the capital that adds to the greening of Sweden. From Malmö »
New Breeds of Cities - Fictional Solutions to Future Problems
This post was originally posted on URBNFUTR, our peephole into the cities and society of tomorrow Urbanization: The Rise Seasteading, as it is called, is the »
Megacities: Five of the World’s ‘Biggest’ Cities
By Joe Peach of This Big City As the world urbanises and our lifestyles evolve, cities are getting bigger. And I’m not just talking about population sizes. As This Big City kicks off a fortnight of themed posts »
Megacities: Eight Ideas from #citytalk for Developing Future Cities
By Joe Peach of This Big City Last week we hosted another #citytalk tweetchat with the New Cities Foundation on the topic of Future Cities. With the world »
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Microcities: Five of the World’s ‘Smallest’ Cities
By Joe Peach, Founder of This Big City. See Related Post: Megacities: Five of the World’s ‘Biggest’ Cities For the first time ever, the majority of the world’s »
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Taking Urban Responsibility
From broken windows to beautiful streets. Consider a typical urban environment. Any will do. Location is not important. Consider how this is the product of thousands of decisions and countless actions by innumerable groups and individuals. Even the most simple in »
Back to the Futurist: Anab Jain
The fourth post of the Back to the Futurist series is dedicated to Anab Jain. Previous in Series: Liam Young Who is Anab Jain? Anab is a designer, entrepreneur, TED Fellow and the founder of Superflux, a multidisciplinary design company based in London, UK and »