Future

In this series from Glass House Conversations, journalist Greg Lindsay asks what the successful cities of the future will look like, and whether or not they should be built from scratch.

Cities are becoming smarter, as buildings and infrastructures become retrofitted with sensory technology. The question this raises is how this will change our perception of the public sphere, according to Martijn de Waal.

This post from This Big City looks at how transportation needs to evolve, and some of the ways it could in the near future.

The 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition turned up some unusual and futuristic designs for future skyscrapers and other structures, from a reimagined Hoover Dam to a Ferris Wheel-shaped wind turbine.

Parag Khanna suggests that cities are the building blocks of humanity, and will take increasing control over the future shape of the world in the coming decades.

Anton Roux and John Stanley of ON LINE opinion outline the future for Australian cities.

In the face of climate change and sea level rise, Popular Science offers four designs for urban lifestyles of the near future.

Terra Vivos is a luxury community built entirely underground, and it can withstand a blast from a nearby 50-megaton nuclear bomb. Arnie Cooper takes a tour.

Newsweek picks the brains of architects to offer these visions of what the cities of New York and Los Angeles will look like in 2030.

An auto company has a new design competition to imagine a future city that is car-friendly.

Where will Americans live? Everywhere. The third article in a three-part series based on Joel Kotkin's new book, "The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050," looks at where Americans will live and how our communities will grow to accommodate them.

The Guardian asks prominent thinkers what sort of city London will be in 20 years.

Demographic modeling is a critical tool in urban planning. But what happens when the model is wrong?

A recent episode of the Australian radio program Future Tense examines how humans interact with the city and how it will likely change in the future.

As theorists predict we are entering the age of the city, Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell reflects on what this shift will mean and how Boston's landscape will change as a result.

This multimedia presentation from Popular Science offers a vision of future green cities and the technologies that will sustain them.

Film is much more effective than planners or architects at assessing the possible future forms of cities, according to this article from film critic A.O. Scott.