Urban Planning Blog

Presenting five designs for sustainable and urban farm towers that might revolutionize agriculture.

Unfortunately not all world cities are as exotic as you thought. Forbes compiles the list of the world’s dirtiest cities.

19 cities in the world with 20 million people in the 21st century. Read more on the mega trend of our century. The world is urbanizing rapidly whether you like it or not.

Bikes have their own traffic light in Budapest, Hungary.

Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest person is building a monstrous residence in the heart of densely-populated Mumbai. The structure is 490 feet tall and includes a corporate meeting facility along with his 35,000 square feet of private residence. Arzan however is impressed by the architectural aspects of the structure which might change the way high rises [...]

The total area occupied by all Wal-Mart stores is equal to the area of Manhattan. Now you wouldn’t want to live in a ‘Manhattan’ of Wal-Mart, would you?

In an age of MacMansions, it is a pleasure to see wafer-thin houses. Got any more around where you live?

It is almost common belief that well-lit areas reduce crime but is it really so? An article in New Yorker on light pollution mentions couple of points that depart from this perception. “In the early seventies, the public-school system in San Antonio, Texas, began leaving many of its school buildings, parking lots, and other property [...]

Following the story that having obese friends can make you obese, come yet another study that claims that you can determine the obesity of people by the zip code they are living in. Additionally, the researchers add that “adults living in ZIP codes with the highest property values were the slimmest, and those living in [...]

I posted images of the Tokyo flood control system sometime back. In a similar trend, the BLDGBLOG talked to urban explorer Michael Cook who loves traveling to subterranean civic infrastructure of Canada and northern New York State – and into those regions’ warehouses, factories, and crumbling hospitals. Cook’s website is smartly named, Vanishing Point. I [...]

Mumbai is where I spent most of my life before heading west. Technically, it is the land of my ancestors although it is an immigrant city which incidentally is also the best thing about it. But the geography of the city i.e. the long peninsula stretching out along the mainland into the Arabian sea has [...]

Images from erstwhile Kowloon Walled City in Hongkong before it was demolished. It had a density of 1,900,000 /sq.km.

World's Slum Dwellers: More Like Us Than We Think.

Improving Public Space for all New Yorkers. The Design Trust is emphasizing conserving public space in the city of New York City.

Ever done a figure-ground analysis for studying the footprint of a structure? Now just reverse your line of sight and look the other way. Yup! Toward the light. I wonder if we can we have an Urban Typography font? [source]