Tag: Urban Life - Page 4
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Bay Area Leads New Ranking of US Eco-Friendly Cities
That's perhaps to be expected, but would you have guessed that Las Vegas has more green architects than any other city?
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Taking Back the Streets: Info-Pillars Hacked By Urban Activists In Toronto
Horrible obstructing billboards taken over by artists. Still horrible, but better.
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New Study Suggests That Everything Everybody Believes in About Urban Design Is Wrong, That Density and Smart Growth Don't Make A Difference in Sustainability
Forget going tall or dense or walkable or cyclable; apparently it doesn't matter. It's back to school.
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How Croudsourcing is Helping Water 10,000 Trees in Chicago
Thousands of young trees in Chicago (and your city) are at risk of dying in this drought. Tips on how you can help water trees to ensure their survival.
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City of Drummondville, Quebec Says "Rip Out This Garden"
City says front yards should be grass, not vegetables, and is planning to ban them all.
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LiveScreen Makes Vertical Gardening Flexible and Easy
LiveScreen is a portable planted wall system.
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Hanging Rooftop Furniture Cultivates Secret Space Above the City
Reminiscent of a childhood escape, this set of furniture converts unusable roofs into something special.
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Weird Fish Habitat: Unused Phone Booth Remade as Giant Aquarium
There's a glut of derelict phone booths in our cities -- and this French creative team transformed one into something else entirely.
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Brooklyn's Newest Pool Should Be Copied by Cities Everywhere
I took a trip to the newly opened public pool to take a look.
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Factories, Like Offices And Apartments, Used To Be Dense, Urban and Vertical
Perhaps it's time to reconsider the vast flat factory and go up again.
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Is the High Line Park "A Tad Fatuous" or "A Gorgeously Executed Gem"?
An interesting but confused essay by hipster with child.
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Paris Tests Out Snazzy New 'Bus Stop of the Future'
Multi-purpose public space outside Gare de Lyon offers bike rentals, a book lending library, and places to buy coffee and recharge your cell phone.
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Staircase Cinema Brings People Together in New Zealand
A design studio set up a little movie theater in an outdoor staircase to get residents together.
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A Re-Adapted "Local": Garbage Skips Transformed into Storytelling Bar & Café (Video)
Marshalling discarded materials, furniture and help from local residents, these two Dutch designers created an improvised local meeting place.
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Mayors Gloat About Cities' Sustainable Development Progress, Criticize Global Process at Rio+20
New York City mayor and C40 Chair Michael Bloomberg’s words were firm and self congratulatory, but that didn’t make them any less true: Cities seem indeed to be ahead of the global process.
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More Trees = Less Crime in Baltimore, Study Shows
Researchers found that a 10 percent increase in trees roughly matched a 12 percent decrease in crime in Baltimore.
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Quote of the Day: David Frum on Cities
The conservative columnist suggests 3 seeds for an economic boom, and gets at least one right.
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Technology and Smart Phones Are Changing Cities, and The Densest Cities Benefit The Most
Many people thought the internet might mean the end of cities, but it turns out that the opposite is true.
