Tag: Cities - Page 7
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"Hipster" Farmers Are Doing Nothing New (Video)
We've posted before about the work of Greg Willerer of Brother Nature Farm in a rundown part of Detroit, and we know that urban farming is not just a nice idea—growing food in our cities is playing a crucial role
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Ford Transit Connect Electric Delivery Van: The Fully Charged Review (Video)
Electric cars may still have their doubters, but if there is anywhere where EVs should really come into their own it's in the urban environment. And while we regular citizens might just be cajoled into biking, walking, using
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Nature Photos on Urban Billboards Show City-Dwellers What They're Missing
If you want to check out artist Tim Simmons' nature photos, avoid museums and art galleries. The work is on display, but not where you would expect: the photos can be found in giant form on billboards in Los Angeles
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Design Your Own 'Hutopolis' at Beijing Design Week
Praised by Prince Charles for their sustainable features, Beijing's traditional hutong alley neighborhoods are now the stars of a SimCity-like interactive game being showcased at Beijing Design Week. Its creators hope letting exhibit
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Adorable Greenhouse Made From 100,000 Clear Lego Blocks at London Design Festival
No survey of outside design can ignore the adorable LEGO Greenhouse, supposedly the world's first greenhouse
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Scotland Makes World's First Urban Green Space Map
Finding a place to hike or picnic in Scotland's cities just got easier with the introduction of what is thought to be the world's
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MIT Researchers Launch Software To Help Plan Cities Better -- Using Social Network Analysis
It's been estimated that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in cities, with another two billion expected to move to already overcrowded urban areas in the next twenty
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Seasteading: Are Independent Floating Micro-Nations The Next Big Wave?
Seasteads -- offshore, oil-rig-style 'micro-countries' built out in the ocean, outside the laws of land-based nations -- are making the news again, thanks to a $1.25 million investment boost last week by PayPal founder and
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Reversible OLED Building Tiles Collect & Light Up Cities With Solar Power (Video)
We've long heard how OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) are poised to change the home electronics market thanks to their energy efficiency, but what about large-scale applications like lighting up urban buildings and
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What I Learned By Trespassing
When I was a kid, a more unruly friend of mine taught me that I could get to my friends' houses in half the time by taking shortcuts through people's backyards. It was revelatory to me.
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The Green Future is Shareable Cities: Alex Steffen at TED (Video)
Alex Steffen has long supported urbanization and the sustainable development of cities as a key climate solution -- as a founder of the very influential but now-defunct World Changing, he's argued that if we're smart about it, the world can become a
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'Urban Rangers' Lead Nature Hikes into Wilds of LA
With their crisp khaki shirts and drab green trousers, topped with the familiar Stetson hat, they would look at home in any national park, leading nature walks and offering kindly but serious
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British Urbanists On The London Riots
The British publication The Architects Journal asked some of the most prominent architectural thinkers for their comments on why Britain was burning. (and they even dropped their paywall so we could see it.) Some interesting
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Punk Rock Permaculture in Mexico City (Video)
It's not just hippies going that like to go green. From green-living anarchist collectives to Punk Rock Permaculture's reporting on disaster relief in Haiti, the notion of green living back-to-the-land lifestyles goes
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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Drivers Beware! Park in the Bike Lane in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Your Car May Get Crushed By a Tank
Screenshot from YouTube. Though bad driver behavior in Vilnius, Lithuania, hasn't quite reached Moscow-like levels yet, Mayor Arturas Zuokas had gotten sick and tired of cars parking illegally in the capital's bike lanes. While other city officials
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At NYC's Density, the World's Population Could Live in Texas
It turns out that if you wanted every person in the world to move to Texas, finding room for everyone wouldn't be your biggest problem. A series of maps produced by denisty blog Per Square Mile shows
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City-Dwellers Blow Their Green Cred on Energy-Hogging 'Compensatory' Holidays, Research Says
Ouch. This one hits a bit close to home: According to a recent study by two Norwegian researchers, people who live environmentally friendly day-to-day lives commuting by public transportation and residing
