Arts & Culture

Public Transit in Lagos

Bus Rapid Transit systems is a ‘transport system’ that is rapidly being adopted by many governments and cities around to world to solve commuting and human movement problems within their cities.[read more]

Urbanism in Turkey

As events unfold in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, there is a tendency for the urban issues that sparked the uprising to fade into the background.[read more]

Traveling Slowly

June is the time of year we start thinking of Greece. It’s the month when the heat rising off DC’s streets slows us down a notch and we start craving a more European lifestyle and white wine in the afternoon.[read more]

Music Festival Fun

With festivals able to make local economies swell, more towns are trying to get a piece of the pie.[read more]

Improving Public Spaces

Food trucks are all the rage these days. Go-To tools for urban designers, aspiring restaurateurs and festival planners, they are seen as a relatively quick and easy way to activate spaces.[read more]

terrorism and art

Depending on subject matter, some of Reid's work seeks to please, some to reflect, some to challenge or defuse. "IT'S THE BOMB!" addresses what he sees as the current state of terrorism hysteria.[read more]

Women's Building, San Francisco

A diverse crowd of people and restaurants offer different kinds of cuisines and have catalyzed this area as a cultural incubator. The ease with which people interact has increased the use of public space much more powerfully than in a suburb.[read more]

Pike Place Market

In a time where you can buy almost anything online, Seattle’s Pike Place Market reminds us that character and convenience are not synonymous. It is a place that connects the public to the city’s history.[read more]

New York, city of aspiration

In any development scheme, you pick a star and try to replicate it in your own backyard. “The Next Silicon Valley!” Yet all the schemes, placemaking, and tolerance overlook what makes global cities such as New York so great.[read more]

creativity in Phoenix

Andy Brown moved back to Phoenix to cut his cost of living so that he can concentrate on making art rather than figuring out how to sell it – and found that the selling of it is starting to take care of itself, through word of mouth.[read more]

coffee and social change

Cafe de las Sonrisas in Granada, Nicaragua was established to break down the barriers that deaf and mute people typically face in integrating into the labour market.[read more]

people and cities

Initiatives like these are fine examples of how friendly interactions in urban spaces, however simple they may be, can be very beneficial in making the experience of living in a city more inviting and welcoming.[read more]