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Study Shows a Clear Relationship Between Health and Where You Live
A new report shows that people who live in the suburbs are less healthy than people who live in denser cities. America’s obesity epidemic has for the most part been blamed on diet but this study...
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Pictures of Shanghai’s noticeable development over the past 2 decades
Shanghai has gone through a tremendous development over the last 2 decades. There have been several other cities that have changed dramatically over the years, Berlin and Dubai being the ones that I...
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New Heden: The City Made of Green Roofs
New Heden is a recent project that takes a vacant lot in Sweden and transforms it into a mixed-use, sustainable city. This project, by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects, is in a way creating a city inside...
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Ellen Dunham-Jones Talks about Retrofitting Our Suburbs for the Future
In January Ellen Dunham- Jones talked at TED about the importance of transforming our existing suburbs into something tat is more sustainable and more inhabitable. “In the past 50 years we have been...
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Mall in Utah Being Transformed into a Mixed-Use Walkable Neighborhood
In my previous post I talked about how in the future we will be needing to retrofit our malls and redevelop our suburbs into mixed use communities that are human scale rather than reliant on the car....
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Amtrak Map Represented in the Style of a Subway Map
Cameron Booth, a graphic designer and photographer, has put together a map of the Amtrak Routes in the US to look like a subway map. This diagram is visually interesting and a very unique idea. He has...
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Stuck in Studio: A new site that gives resources to architecture students
Everyone knows that architecture students are always in studio. As an architecture student you are expected to pull all nighters and go days without sleep right before your final presentation. Stuck in...
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Bicycle City: Plans for a City Where Cars are Prohibited
The idea behind Bicycle City is that people can live, work, and play in a town where everything is accessible by just riding a bike (with parking is at the edge of the community.) Bicycle city was an...
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