Airports are bizarre places. But if you think about it, they're not nearly bizarre enough. Especially as we move towards a more globalized culture, we appreciate less and less of the extreme differences, both geographic and cultural, ...READ MORE›
What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off. READ MORE›
With 2,715 pounds of dynamite Sunday, 40-year-old Texas Stadium -- the one with the hole in its roof, “so God can watch his favorite team play” -- was reduced to 2 million pounds of steel scrap and 4 million pounds of ...READ MORE›
Last Wednesday, Haitian president René Préval asked the international aid community for $3.8 billion to rebuild his shattered country after January’s devastating earthquake. In what amounted to a fund-raiser at the United ...READ MORE›
So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven ...READ MORE›
Hewlett Packard announces the first commercial application of its holistic blueprint for smarter cities: "CeNSE" (Central Nervous System for the Earth). But what sets HP apart from its rivals is its determination to create a smarter planet almost entirely within house, from sensors of its own design and manufacture to servers and software to the consultants who will tie it all together.READ MORE›
Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a "Smart+Connected Community" over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in ...READ MORE›
The real question facing Haiti isn't whether to rebuild the capital or move it inland; it's how do you build a city that creates opportunities instead of slums?READ MORE›
"I was in California," the consummate ad man Don Draper rhapsodized last season in Mad Men. "Everything's new, and it's clean. The people are full of hope. New York is in decay." The suburban landscape that awed him circa 1963 was ...READ MORE›
A one-time cow town, oil town, and even a tent city (when it was founded during the 1889 land rush), Oklahoma City is urgently trying to reinvent itself as the next big city in America. If "America is the Saudi Arabia of natural ...READ MORE›
The Internet raged in response to a shadowy organization's plans to raze New York's Central Park in favor of an airport, Strawberry Fields be damned. We unravel the mystery.READ MORE›
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