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Busy Busy Towns: Watch the World’s Ten Biggest Cities In Motion
It’s a montage of trains and temples, skyscrapers and skateboards in this lovely video, where the flowing populations and frenetic pace of the world’s ten biggest cities are set to a surprisingly...
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What Happens When Natural Disasters Instantly Change Our Maps?
Pakistan’s devastating earthquake this week killed hundreds, with a death toll that’s certain to rise. While the country recovers, the world has become fascinated by a geographic side effect of the...
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Watch this Island Appear Out of Nowhere Off the Coast of Pakistan
NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured the birth of the new island off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan after this week’s 7.8 earthquake. Read below for a longer look at this rocky, flammable...
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The Designers of the World’s Tallest Buildings Aim to Build Wood Towers
Just when you had given up on trees, wooden buildings are back! Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the firm behind the Sears (Willis) Tower, One World Trade Center, and many other extremely tall buildings...
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Tour the Art Train That Travelled from New York to Oakland
Last week a train twinkling with LED lights chugged into Oakland’s 16th Street Station, its final destination on a 4,860 kilometre, ten-city whistle stop art happening orchestrated by Doug Aitken...
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Coke’s “Downtown in a Box” Delivers Clean Water and Wi-Fi to Africa
Coca-Cola’s global distribution channels are so well-developed that a Coke can get pretty much anywhere on the planet—even places where there’s no access to fresh water. But Coke is working on that,...
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How to Protect Cities from Sandy-like Storms? It’s all About Islands
One year ago, Hurricane Sandy tore a path of destruction up and down the US’ Eastern Seaboard. Earlier this week, ten architecture and planning teams revealed their solutions for rebuilding the city in...
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I’m a Bird! This Pigeon Simulator Lets You Soar Over London
Who hasn’t dreamed of soaring over a city, dipping between the rooftops, peering into people’s windows? A new simulator allows anyone to have a real-life birds-eye view of London as a pigeon, without...
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The Only Population Map You Need to Understand the World
Which countries are emerging superpowers? Which countries are in decline? This excellent infographic of population change, country by country, explains pretty much everything you need to know about...
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The 12 Best Airline Safety Videos, Reviewed
new sassy in flight safety video: A liveaction musical number. It’s still heads and shoulders above most airlines, but is it the best? Airline safety videos have been around as long as in flight...
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Watch These Crazy Animations of How Three Cities Commute
New York City mostly rides transit, Los Angeles loves its cars, and San Francisco has a dedicated population of bike commuters. UC Berkeley planning Ph.D. student Fletcher Foti recently built a...
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You Could be the Proud Owner of These 19th-Century Plymouth Tunnels
Sure, this 2,000 square-foot, no-windows, no-view property is a bit of a fixer-upper. But think of the Halloween parties you could throw down here! This set of 200-year old tunnels beneath Plymouth are...
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A Photographic Journey Down the Old Industrial Banks of the Thames
After the Thames weaves eastward through London, it widens into an industrial landscape of factories sretching out into the English Channel. London-based photographer Alice Gur-Arie has documented this...
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A Fake Slum for Luxury Tourists Who Don’t Want to See Real Poverty
It’s estimated that one in eight people worldwide live in so-called slums, which, in some cities, makes visiting these informally maintained neighborhoods unavoidable. Although controversial, the...
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Boing 474: The Chinese are Now Knocking Off the US’ Airplanes
Chinese manufacturers are experts at knocking off just about anything, from “Rat Ban” sunglasses and “Wee” gaming consoles to, yes, “HiPhones.” But now it looks like they’re very close to copying...
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How Two Guys Figured Out the Number of Pools in Los Angeles
Anyone who’s flown into Los Angeles can see them: the tiny, irregular-shaped turquoise gems that dot the residential landscape. It’s incredible, really, how visible LA’s backyard pools are from the...
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Find Inner Peace In Your Own Private Meditation Cavern
Yoga studios are nice, but what about the pretentious people and their greasy mats—not to mention all the see-through pants and all the farts? What you really need is your own private meditation cavern...
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Rock Piles, Graves, and Ice Caves are Historic Monuments in Antarctica
On these frigid days, it helps to think about a place like Antarctica, which was recently determined to be without a doubt the coldest place on Earth (as if anyone was really surprised?). But it’s also...
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Have a Blast Preparing for the End Times in This Luxurious Compound
At first, this 4,000 square-foot cabin in Colorado seems like nothing more than a gorgeous high-elevation getaway. But then you start to notice a few things—signs that this place is for more than just...
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7 Smart New Affordable Housing Projects Making Cities Stronger
The looming affordable housing crisis will likely be the biggest issue facing cities in 2014. A convergence of cataclysmic prices, a development slowdown, and a weak job market are squeezing low income...
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