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.
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sleepy tropical backwater stereotyped in the novels of Anthony Burgess and Somerset Maugham's short stories has been superseded by Malaysia the high-tech urbanized regional powerbroker.
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.
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.
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.
Tensions run high at Manouba University in Tunisia, where a handful of ultraconservative Salafist students are pitted against an urban faculty with a strong sense that the campus is no place for enforced religion.
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.
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.
"Billy The Aussie Easter Bilby," a story by Rose-Marie Dusting, has helped to catalyze the Australian urbanite's interest in saving the marsupial, replacing the Easter bunny with true native wildlife.
"Billy The Aussie Easter Bilby," a story by Rose-Marie Dusting, has helped to catalyze the Australian urbanite's interest in saving the marsupial, replacing the Easter bunny with true native wildlife.
A harried park system, pressured by federal funding cuts and urban development, now faces hungry bears. Heat and dryness is killing the core of the bears' diet, making them desperate.
A harried park system, pressured by federal funding cuts and urban development, now faces hungry bears. Heat and dryness is killing the core of the bears' diet, making them desperate.
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.