Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood urban planning architecture Article 1369 words, published Sep 26 2022 8 votes
The real reason Egypt is moving its capital away from Cairo urban planning Video 10:36, published Sep 7 2022 6 votes
Why Chicago's skyline is insanely well designed urban planning architecture Video 13:15, published Sep 8 2022 3 votes
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong urban planning Article 2042 words 10 votes
How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand urban planning Article 1039 words 24 votes
Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same architecture urban planning Video 20:09 14 votes
The bewildering architecture of indoor cities architecture urban planning Video 13:12, published Feb 10 2022 6 votes
For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities. architecture Article 2246 words 5 votes
Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam urban planning Video 10:16, published Mar 23 2020 8 votes
Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled architecture urban planning Article 714 words 21 votes
The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction – cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries architecture Article 1949 words 4 votes
You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue architecture Article 293 words, published May 23 2021 5 votes
Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs urban planning Article 441 words 8 votes
Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it? urban planning architecture Article 1051 words 17 votes
Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties architecture urban planning Article 9 votes
Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks urban planning Article 6 votes
Can Malmö's green points system help rewild London? Transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a leafy haven inspired London's 'urban greening factor' plan. urban planning Article 1983 words 10 votes
How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century architecture Article 13 votes
Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy architecture Article 404 words 8 votes
The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects architecture Link 11 votes
Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso architecture Article 435 words 5 votes
Five Picasso murals in Oslo are at the center of a major controversy – the murals are scheduled to be moved in the name of preservation architecture Article 674 words 5 votes
Life imitates Hollywood: The rise of "movie-set urbanism" urban planning architecture Article 273 words, published Feb 6 2020 7 votes
Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies architecture Link 6 votes
The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones urban planning Article 1746 words 15 votes
How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing urban planning architecture Article 7 votes
Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction architecture Article 332 words 4 votes
Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere urban planning Article 1906 words 8 votes
How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement architecture urban planning Article 7 votes
We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats advertising Article 460 words, published Sep 11 2016 13 votes
Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA architecture Article 437 words 6 votes
Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea urban planning Article 335 words 11 votes