Many illegal settlements in India have grown into bustling districts more populous than many American cities, yet lacking amenities and legal protections, and residents face the perpetual threat of eviction.
Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads, especially roads that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.
Beadle dime novels became so popular that the company had to build a factory of hack writers to mass produce them. As urbanization spread, tales of the Wild West were in less demand, and tales of urban outlaws became popular.
Down a nondescript alley in old town Bangkok lies a hidden gem. In the abandoned New World shopping mall, an amazing population of exotic Koi and Catfish thrive in a self-sustained urban aquarium!
Down a nondescript alley in old town Bangkok lies a hidden gem. In the abandoned New World shopping mall, an amazing population of exotic Koi and Catfish thrive in a self-sustained urban aquarium!
Down a nondescript alley in old town Bangkok lies a hidden gem. In the abandoned New World shopping mall, an amazing population of exotic Koi and Catfish thrive in a self-sustained urban aquarium!
Down a nondescript alley in old town Bangkok lies a hidden gem. In the abandoned New World shopping mall, an amazing population of exotic Koi and Catfish thrive in a self-sustained urban aquarium!
Cities are often viewed as environmental wastelands, where only the hardiest of species can eke out an existence. But as scientists in urban ecology have found, more and more animals are establishing footholds.
Home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl, China's modernization plan looks to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population into city living by 2025.
Retailers from Gap to Urban Outfitters are already struggling to persuade consumers to pay full-price for clothes. Now it turns out, many of their younger customers prefer trading T-shirts, jeans and dresses among themselves.
Yarn bombing has been described as warm and fuzzy defiant art. Those who engage in the street graffiti delight in creating random acts of art on urban architecture.
Yarn bombing has been described as warm and fuzzy defiant art. Those who engage in the street graffiti delight in creating random acts of art on urban architecture.
Yarn bombing has been described as warm and fuzzy defiant art. Those who engage in the street graffiti delight in creating random acts of art on urban architecture.
Parking structures have long been a rote sort of project meant to pack in cars, but a recent renaissance has shifted this perspective. Garages are now being designed as humanistic spaces key to the urban fabric.
Think of a library-sized greenhouse with racks of cascading vegetables instead of books. Though challenging to implement, vertical farming's small footprint gives it an advantage over other forms of urban horticulture.
Cities are often viewed as environmental wastelands, where only the hardiest of species can eke out an existence. But as scientists in urban ecology have found, more and more animals are establishing footholds.
Cities are often viewed as environmental wastelands, where only the hardiest of species can eke out an existence. But as scientists in urban ecology have found, more and more animals are establishing footholds.
Cities are often viewed as environmental wastelands, where only the hardiest of species can eke out an existence. But as scientists in urban ecology have found, more and more animals are establishing footholds.
Home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl, China's modernization plan looks to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population into city living by 2025.
Home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl, China's modernization plan looks to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population into city living by 2025.
Home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl, China's modernization plan looks to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population into city living by 2025.
Home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl, China's modernization plan looks to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population into city living by 2025.
Malaysia has a new image. The sleepy tropical backwater stereotyped in the novels of Anthony Burgess and Somerset Maugham's short stories has been superseded by Malaysia the high-tech urbanized regional powerbroker.
Malaysia has a new image. The sleepy tropical backwater stereotyped in the novels of Anthony Burgess and Somerset Maugham's short stories has been superseded by Malaysia the high-tech urbanized regional powerbroker.
Malaysia has a new image. The sleepy tropical backwater stereotyped in the novels of Anthony Burgess and Somerset Maugham's short stories has been superseded by Malaysia the high-tech urbanized regional powerbroker.