The success of London in 2050 will be measured by its environment. Will Londoners experience the city as spacious, efficient, healthy, and resilient? Or will they experience it as overcrowded, dysfunctional, stressful and insecure?
Near Melbourne, Australia lies an incredible suburban project underway dubbed Yarrabend. What is unique unique about this venture is that all of the houses will come standard with Tesla Powerwalls and solar panels.
Columbus, USA is the winner of the $40 million Smart City Challenge. The Ohio capital will soon burst with electric vehicles, autonomous shuttles, platooning trucks, and bus rapid transit, which will sail through smart traffic lights that turn green just for them.
Three-quarters of UK construction companies now operate a low carbon or carbon reduction strategy, a new survey has shown.
Dutch firm topped out the Tianjin Binhai Library, which features a gigantic eye-like space at its heart.
When you’re aiming for a project to be the first, biggest, or best of its kind in the world, having an international team on the job can really help.
New plans for driverless cars on Britain's roads are to be announced in the Queen's speech this week, as are proposals for creating an ambitious UK-based space tourism industry by 2018 along with drone-friendly innovations.
Extreme heat is a growing hazard for cities around the world. A case study on Louisville, Kentucky offers recommendations that could significantly reduce the number of people who die annually from heat-related causes
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities' carbon emissions.
Tokyo’s urban jungle is about to become a whole lot greener. Dutch firm ingenhoven architects unveiled designs for the Toranomon Project, a mixed-use development draped with greenery.
Nissan reveals an exciting glimpse into the future – with the first look at its fully connected vision of the future of mobility in association with renowned architects, Foster + Partners.
How can Asia's cities cities sustain rapidly growing populations without further wreaking havoc on the environment, while still maintaining their competitive edge?
Sou Fujimoto Architects and Manal Rachdi OXO Architects have designed a green glass residential development in Paris.
“Southeast Asia’s largest green city” will also be a car-free zone. The first phase of Forest City, a mixed-use, sustainable development spanning 13.86 sq km in Iskandar Malaysia, was recently unveiled for public viewing to whet the appetite of regional investors.
‘IF YOU build it they will come.’ This is the thinking guiding one of China’s most ambitious projects — a plan to build a “smart” city for 500,000 people, from scratch, on four man-made islands in South-East Asia.
