urbanism

Vicious Saudi autocrat Mohamed bin Salman has a new vision for Neom, his plan for a massive, $500 billion,…

Sounds like notorious human rights abuser Saudi Arabia’s plan to build a massive new city of the future on the…

Anyone who’s spent time in a city in the summer knows that these bastions of blacktop get uncomfortably hot compared…

Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s…

Growing up around Washington, D.C., it’s a relief to now live in a city laid out in a coherent fashion, with…

LOS ANGELES — It’s barely 10 a.m. on an August day in Hollywood, and the heat is already becoming oppressive. The…

Few cities represent the remarkable 20th century trend of skyscraper-filled, obscenely dense cities better than Hong…

Cities will grow alongside growing populations, turning the land in their wake into housing and infrastructure. And…

European cities like Paris are much, much older than American cities like New York, and that age difference has led…

For the past sixteen months or so, it’s felt as though our planet has been shaking us by the shoulders, trying to wak…

Rio’s water is vile—full of raw sewage and dead bodies—and later this week, humanity’s top athletes will plunge into…

In the 80s and 90s, the 911 system in the US became overloaded with people calling to report things like wayward…

San Francisco needs help. It also needs to decide where to put bus stops for the hundreds of shuttle buses that…

Where will the first Hyperloop be? So far there are plans to use the tubular transportation system to move…

Researchers at the University of Hamburg noticed that urban areas have higher populations of hedgehogs than rural…

The investigation into a death that occurred while a Tesla Model S driver was using Autopilot has filled the…

You might have noticed an uptick of stories about the Bay Area’s homeless crisis in your social media feeds…

Just the presence of streetlights can deter criminal behavior. A South Philadelphia neighborhood is trying something…

Cities are so trendy right now that every big tech company wants to build its own. Zappos did it in Downtown Vegas.…

For three years I’ve been writing at least once a week about self-driving cars and I’ve recently noticed a shift in…