Building megacities needs to be a multidisciplinary effort, according to architect and designer Sean C. S. Chiao.
Feb 3, 2011 What Matters
The demand for air travel may seem to be on the decline, but it's actually rising -- and playing a major role in determining which places are more economically successful.
Feb 3, 2011 The New York Times
The cities of the future should be "smart" -- equipped with data-collection tools and technologies to improve city functionality -- but being smart also means being a good listener, writes Saskia Sassen.
Feb 3, 2011 What Matters
A recent international design competition sought innovative and attractive solutions for allowing wildlife to cross busy highways. The winning designs take various strategies to go over or under the traffic.
Feb 2, 2011 The Globe and Mail
In Barcelona, Mario Ballesteros says that now is the time to change the perception of historic preservation from a staid, conservative activity to an active, contemporary approach.
Feb 2, 2011 domus
With recent uprisings in Cairo and Tunis, we are reminded that the city has been the center of revolutionary action for hundreds of years, according to this piece from Edward L. Glaeser.
Feb 2, 2011 The New York Times
Barun Roy says that some of the most adventurous, bizarre and impractical architecture is being built in Asia.
Jan 28, 2011 Business Standard
Karl Chu sees a future of architecture that combines artificial intelligence and biological processes resulting in fantastical organic buildings.
Jan 27, 2011 IEET blog
Peace and Security professor Michael Klare warns that we are entering a period of global resource scarcity and unrest.
Jan 24, 2011 AlterNet
This TIME video is titled, "What Makes Cities Smart?" But the mayors interviewed - Villariagosa, Daley, Nutter - are mostly obsessed with building public transit and high-speed rail.
Jan 24, 2011 Time
