Twenty-First Century Cities
39200
Our urban future, from Third World slums to the virtual Panopticon.
374091
On Monday, the mayor made the latest in a series of proposals intended to help the city cope in an environmentally sound way with the one million new residents expected by 2030.
629270
More than half the world's people will live in cities by 2008, mainly in developing countries, the UN says.
482665
Thank you, UDOT, for the recent decision regarding the Mountain View Corridor in Lehi. I agree. The 2100 North option is the best. It definitely makes the most sense when it comes to cost, homes and business affected and the environment.
323387
Itâs all about location. As one Generation Y worker said, âIt doesnât make sense to have a great job in a crummy city.â
683977
The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
550691
Science & environment: Innovative study suggests scientific solutions to global transport problems within the next 50 years.
710861
Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul.
569364
BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
747372
A year ago, it seemed like just about every major U.S. city was drawing up ambitious plans to build wireless Internet networks so more people, both rich and poor, could have online access wherever they wanted. Now, economics is blurring the Utopian vision as city leaders and the companies proposing to build the Wi-Fi networks haggle over whether the projects make financial sense.
57632
Three years after 9/11, Manhattan looks shiny and clean. But what has become of its icons: its money, its people and, of course, Rudy? An update on a mending metropolis
585547
âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
442334
A report released on Monday by the Washington-based Brookings Institution says that half of the residential, commercial and industrial buildings that will be up in 2030 in the largest metropolitan areas don&#39;t yet exist.
298116
Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
738262
A U.S. environmental engineer says Americans like living in cities, as do an increasing number of people around the world.  Arizona State University Professor John Crittenden says about 81 percent of the U.S. population and about half of the world's people now live in urban areas.
767257
By Michael Andersen, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 1--The more builders and developers benefit from wider streets, the more they'd have to pay.
665348
Which do Britons want their urban spaces to be like? On Monday we looked at the future of our seaside resorts; today we turn the spotlight on the renaissance in the UK's cities, and how they might evolve.