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We have to stop throwing good money after bad. It is time to instead build what the market wants: mixed-income, walkable cities and suburbs that will support the knowledge economy, promote environmental sustainability and create jobs.

Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050.

Necessity being one of invention's many mothers, I have a certain faith in our ability to repurpose almost anything, provided it becomes sufficiently necessary.

Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone's unique place in the world, and are tactile keepsakes meant to last generations. Wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter. 

About 146,200 more people died than were born during the year, another sobering record high, for the fourth straight year. The spread of people is also increasingly becoming concentrated in cities as economically struggling rural towns and villages empty. A little over 90% of citizens reside in cities. Indeed, there are more people who reside in Tokyo’s concrete jungle alone, about 12.66 million people, than all of the small towns across the country combined (11.86 million), according to the ministry numbers.

In 2008, indie powerhouse Mark Batty Publishers released the excellent Urban Iran — a gripping, visually stunning anthology by photographers Karan Rashid and Sina Araghi exploring the rich spectrum of street art across Iran’s cities and countryside.

Yet, you may still think we still need those nuclear power plants, that without them we would have an electricity shortage. It is especially those who live in cities, distanced from these plants, who might still view them as a necessary evil.

the students will be put to work on construction projects in major cities while there are also indications that repair work may be needed in agricultural regions that were affected by a major typhoon recently.

Even as moss diversity in cities is declining rapidly, these findings tell us that Japanese gardens have become refuges for moss in urban areas.

Brassaï claims that a large reason why Miller came to Paris is that he felt he could live a more dignified life in the midst of poverty than in the American city, where being poor was viewed as a "moral failure," a commentary on the differing experiences of poverty and class between American and French global cities with which I am grappling today.

The diversity of flowers found in city gardens, parks, roof terraces, and balconies, offer a more varied and constant (albeit smaller) nectar source that than the monoculture flower crops typically found in rural areas.

Our cities are growing. Growing, that is, in the horticultural sense.

This has become a larger problem as of late, as many of our business development managers, venue specialists, and upper management eggheads need access to the data in order to inform some important decisions.

Unfortunately, this photo shows that an architect’s good intentions can often fall prey to a culture of conservatism.