Light Rail Bringing Massive Change to American Cities
Let’s face it: driving sucks. Car traffic is bad for everyone and a lot of American cities have caught on to this. As a result, more light rail is being…
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Why Urban Areas Are More Efficient Than Suburban Areas
It’s been known for years that urban centres have a lower carbon footprint than the lands of urban sprawl. This is a for a variety of reasons and it’s rather…
Watch Streets Evolve From Car-Focused to People-Focused
Streets were for people, then cars took over and ruined cities. For the last hundred years cities transformed themselves from walkable places to sprawling buildings which were designed for heavy…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
Artists Bring Peace to the Streets
Street art about peace is getting special attention in London these next few weeks. Artists from all over the world are going to explore the idea of ‘peace in our…
Living Architecture Tour of Toronto
If you’re in Toronto or visiting you can now go on a special tour of the city that will reveal all the cool living architecture! It’s a free tour that…
A Futuristic Conclusion to HIGHRISE
HIGHRISE is back with another look into how we humans live in our built environments. We’ve looked at HIGHRISE before (Out My Window and One Millionth Tower) and this last…
Seoul Starts Vertical Farming
Vertical farming is a possible food production solution as suburban sprawl consumes arable land. The new style of farming essentially is a farm in a skyscraper; they have yet to…
Urban Living Cheaper, More Sustainable Than Suburban
Years of car-focused suburban designs have unleashed problems in the 21st century that we will have to deal with and accommodate. The years of the suburbs are coming to an…
Verdun Waterfront Today
Didn’t have my camera when when we got hit with sunshine combined with blinding wet snow but got a few of the aftermath.
Seville is Spain’s Cycling Gem
It’s well known that the future of urban design and transportation will support the mass use of bicycles. Still, some cities are slow to catch on to this. In Spain…
The 20 Safest Cities in the World
The Economist safe cities list (pdf link) has been released and the results are pretty neat! There are some cities that you’d expect to be there and some surprise too!…
Copenhagen Designed a Neighbourhood to Cope With Climate Change
Climate change is happening faster than projected and this means that cities need to react sooner than anticipated. We’ve seen efforts in New York that will create barriers against rising…
Slow Increasing Carbon Waste by Growing Cities
People living in cities have a lower carbon footprint than those in the suburbs and rural areas. Some people find this rather counter intuitive for reasons I don’t fully understand.…
Growing the Green Roof Industry in North America
Green roofs are great! They help alleviate a lot of issues that arise in urban living while making cities more beautiful. There is growing interest in making sure that urban…
New York City’s Simple, and Green, Flood Prevention
New York, like other large cities, has a lot of impermeable services which means that when it rains there is little to contain the water. By using green infrastructure of…
Turcot at La Biennale de Montreal
OK, I have sure been out of the loop here. Stumbled on this article about an artist who is featured at the Montreal Biennale whose work is focused on ideas…
Condesned Forests for an Urban Canopy
Shubhendu Sharma has found a way to get a small area of land to become a thick forest nearly impossible to walk trough. The idea is to take useless spaces…
The Rise of Urban Agriculture
Industrial agriculture is not kind to the environment and has been attributed to deforestation of the rainforest to the massive bee die-off. Yet, we find ourselves attached to this 20th…