Ancient Cities: When Architecture Was the Best Medicine
Ancient cities had a secret: their design protected them from disease. Here's how urban planning shaped civilization.
Urban spaces reinvented: the school streets that are changing Paris
The urban spaces of Paris are being renewed: 180 pedestrianized school streets offer safety, play and sociality to the little ones.
Ellinikon: the smart city that reinvents urban planning in Athens
Residences, shopping, work and leisure in a 2 million m8 park: Ellinikon, the ambitious XNUMX billion urban regeneration plan takes shape in Athens.
From 'Smombies' to 'Screenless City': sensitive interfaces rethink the city
Urban AI promotes Screenless Cities, cities that shift attention from screens to the urban environment thanks to multisensory physical interfaces.
Cancer and large cities have something in common
Shocking research: metropolises are growing like tumors. Same principle of vascularization. We need a new approach to urban planning, starting from medicine.
“Sunflower City”, a new urban scheme maximizes energy
The 'sunflower city' resumes the distribution of seeds in the flower to ensure that the sun reaches all surfaces of the buildings.
15-minute city: all about the future within reach of bikes and shoes
A greener world at your fingertips: welcome to the cities 15 minutes away. Do you have a quarter of an hour to explore the benefits of this urban innovation together?
Xiongan, the futuristic city that flexes China's "technological" muscles
Xiongan is a futuristic social gym, which will host 3 million inhabitants in a completely new urban context
The Orbit, the “radical” plan to reinvent the suburbs of the future
Orbit is a plan to transform rural suburbs into ideal commuter towns. Will it work?
The curved design of the road barrier protects people from pollution
A simple change in the design of a road barrier can drastically improve a serious problem such as pollution
Marble Arch Hill, an artificial hill that gives London another point of view
An unusual project aims to create an artificial hill in central London: a new point of view in the heart of the city
Why Covid will not kill cities
In large cities, offices and stadiums are closed, public transport and historic centers are empty. But those who think of a decentralized post-Covid future are wrong.
On three streets in the center, Barcelona will make one green and pedestrian
Each of the 21 streets chosen by the municipality of Barcelona will become a green street. Each of the intersections a square. One third of the historic center embraces a future of open and pedestrian spaces.
Guallart also has post-Covid self-sufficient city plans
Urban planning solutions for post Covid are increasingly composite and interesting. This self-sufficient city by Guallart Architects does not outline the contours of a new place, but of a new society.
Hyperlane, the long park that changes the face of the city
Recover transversal spaces and return them to the pleasure of life, both in passage and rest: Hyperlane, longitudinal parks to positively transform cities.
Floating cities: a dream or the UN solution to the scarcity of land?
From science fiction to research ground for the united nations: floating cities could offer partial or total solutions to different problems.
Madrid is also testing "superblocks", a new road and urban planning concept
The superblocks, independent urban clusters that offer residents nearby services and walking opportunities, have already been tested in several cities.
Coronavirus, how it can transform the future of cities
Service roads closed to cars, new networks of cycle paths and focus on pedestrians: so cities prepare for the future after (or during) the coronavirus.
A smart city in the forest, surrounded by 7 million trees
The architect Stefano Boeri realizes a Smart City project that can become a paradigm of the communities of the future, techno-ecological.
Singapore plans an underground future
According to a plan launched in March, Singapore plans to move industries, transportation hubs and underground warehouses to free up surface space.
Public spaces, 4 projects that show the future
Here are 4 new projects that aim to return something to citizens in aesthetics and utility. This is the direction to take for the cities of the future.
