International Herald Tribune

A surge in streetcar system construction in the United States is benefitting a number of tram builders like Siemens of Germany and Skoda of the Czech Republic.

Stimulus packages are nothing more than an "economic sugar rush", according to columnist David Brooks. He argues that the country needs to create a larger-scale transportation-based infrastructure project to really bail out the economy.

The American trend of "fractional ownership", a real estate concept in which a number of investors own fractions of vacation homes, has moved to Europe.

Urban farms in Cuba have proven successful at feeding the country and providing hundreds of thousands of jobs.

GPS from cellphones is enabling exciting research into human behavior, but European studies show that our behavior is rarely exciting.

Household sewage is currently fueling cars in Sweden, and has for years. But Swedish industry has given up on the idea, investing in ethanol-based gasoline.

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, planners are challenged with untangling traffic jams that stretch for over 120 miles.

Housing markets around the world are beginning to feel the effects of the American mortgage crisis.

A look at a Shanghai museum focusing on urban planning.

An investor from Dubai is looking to replicate -- in close detail -- the French city of Lyon in the Arab Emirate.

The City of Venice, Italy, has just opened a new waterbus for its canals that is reserved for use by local citizens only -- part of an effort to make the tourist-heavy city more friendly to its own people.

Beginning tomorrow, smoking will be banned in all public restaurants, bars and cafes in Paris, a city where smoking is as much a part of the culture as an addiction.

Smaller cities in rural areas of Japan are being gutted out, as big box centers continue to sprout up outside cities.

Cars and scooters rules the roads -- and often the sidewalks -- in Greece, making things difficult for the country's pedestrians. A new activist movement is looking to bring illegal parking and pedestrian-right-of-way violations to light.

Most people think of parking garages as ugly behemoths that perform a necessary evil, but one author and architect has a different way of looking at them.

The booming production and use of cement is the single largest material contributor to climate change.

A derelict train depot in London has been given a 21st-century makeover in preparation for its opening as the terminal for high-speed trains traveling in between the English capital and other European cities such as Paris and Brussels.

Rapid growth and expansion are bringing economic prosperity to the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, but it is steadily swallowing the area's water supplies.

The US Agency for International Development is considering a broad infrastructure project to repair a crumbling dam in Afghanistan as part of an effort to create economic and political stability in a region of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban.

Residents in the Bolivian city of Sucre are mounting an effort to have their city regain its status as the country's capital -- a designation is lost in 1899. But the costs of transferring the political infrastructure from La Paz would be immense.