Latest Stories in Urban Design
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Hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws
It's true those teeny wind turbines attached to big buildings always look...useless. So Stockholm architects tried to come up with better energy collectors for skyscrapers.
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Yet another survey confirms: Young people want to be in town near transit, not in the suburbs
Canadian study shows different priorities for first-time home buyers.
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Toronto's Green Line Competition Winners Announced
The ideas competition brought out some great ideas
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How cities of the future depend on models from the past
Cities designed in a past before there were cars will work a lot better in the future.
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NVIDIA joins the crazy Silicon Valley headquarters wars, now with triangles
Circles, squiggles, stilts and now triangles. When will this end?
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Greenwash Watch: Is this good design or egregious greenwrapping?
Does covering a coal-fired power plant with topiary make it any greener?
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My Cool Allotment is a guide to the prettiest allotment gardens around
Allotment gardens as works of growable art...
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Ideas for making smart growth smarter
The idea of Smart Growth is under attack from both sides; here are some ideas for updating it to the 21st century.
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Goedzak ("good bag") designs a new approach to reuse
Dutch design firm Waarmakers proposes a new take on an old trick, and gets us pondering the best options for stuff we no longer use.
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More detail and refinement of Apple's new headquarters
It looks less like a spaceship and more like a bicycle tire.
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Sometimes, historic preservationists really are NIMBYs
This is the poorest excuse yet for trying to keep out Citibikes
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Nature reserves in UK may be fair game for developers, if they "offset" the damage on less valuable real estate
There's lots of less valuable land farther away from cities. Why protect it when you can offset it?
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Visions of a future where cities are all in one building
The agenda 21 conspiracy theorists deride it as "pack'em and stack'em" housing but it's an interesting idea.
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Venice bans all fossil fuel powered boats- for five hours on Sunday
If only it could always be this way with less pollution, fewer boats and no destructive waves.
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In the great Cities vs Suburbs battle, companies and workers are voting with their feet and moving downtown
In this corner, the city represented by Richard Florida; in that corner, the suburbs represented by Joel Kotkin. The numbers give it to Florida.
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Environmentalists rejoice as Agenda 21 is implemented across North America!
A green, sustainable future awaits us all as the United Nations proposal for sustainable development becomes the law of the land.
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Take off your shoes and walk on this permanent memorial to dead cyclist Jenna Morrison
It is a reflexology footpath that massages your feet as you walk. I can't wait to try it.
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Can cities be too dense? Can condos be too tall? Are they built to last?
All important questions, asked by Antonia Zerbisias in the Toronto Star
