Friday Eye Candy

The transit map is useful, but doesn't always capture the scale of the engineering feat that produced the world's subways systems.

July 13, 2018 - CityLab

The panoramas of Heinrich Berann had been locked up in a vault, Now they are available for download.

July 6, 2018 - National Geographic

Not all bike routes are created equal; some are just mellower.

June 22, 2018 - Chicago Reader

What does the way people commute reveal about the role of individuals in society?

May 18, 2018 - CityLab

Mandatory evacuations were in order, so there was no threat to the general pubic. Witness the fury of mother nature from a safe distance.

April 13, 2018 - The Washington Post

China has dockless bikeshare graveyards; the United States has Volkswagen graveyards.

March 30, 2018 - Sky News

You might have read about the oceans of impounded dockless bikes, piling up around cities in China, but you've never seen them like this.

March 30, 2018 - The Atlantic

Never mind that old adage about judging a book by its cover: the way a library is designed makes an undeniable difference for its patrons. Here are 20 of the nation's most picturesque.

March 23, 2018 - Curbed

The real estate market in Manhattan is pushing towers to new heights and new dimensions.

March 23, 2018 - The B1M

A series of renderings by a Seattle architect shows the recently completed high-rises, along with under construction, proposed, and rumored projects. Seattle is changing, quickly.

January 26, 2018 - The Urbanist

Ten children, ages six through 12, were asked to draw the cars of the future, and then a professional illustrator touched up their ideas.

January 5, 2018 - Quartz

More than ever it seemed, the scale of natural and human events were visible from space in 2017.

December 29, 2017 - Quartz

Check out the holiday-themed buses rolling through the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and the Detroit Department of Transportation systems.

December 15, 2017 - Philadelphia

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been making the most of its celestial perch to illustrate the scale of the fires currently burning in Southern California.

December 8, 2017 - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Few rail transit systems have faced as many challenges in recent years as the Metrorail system serving the Washington, D.C. Consider this video an appreciation.

November 3, 2017 - Greater Greater Washington

Cultures and geography have created a dictionary's worth of words for water. A new video from Vox maps (most of) them out.

October 20, 2017 - Vox

Arcaid has collected a shortlist for its 2017 architectural photograph of the year.

October 13, 2017 - The Guardian

LEGO fans rejoice! Bjarke Ingels Group has made the LEGO house of your dreams a full-sized reality, and it's stocked full of LEGOs.

October 6, 2017 - The Architect's Newspaper

A comic strip succeeds in presenting the complex history of redlining and housing discrimination.

September 29, 2017 - The Nib

Finally, we know where Internet trolls come from—no, not the basements of parents' houses.

August 25, 2017 - Wired