In recent years, Persian Gulf cities have become symbols of the most spectacular forms of the 'globalization of urbanization'. Current scholarship has sought to situate these cities in transnational processes and linkages with conceptualizations of 'the global city' and the mechanisms of 'worlding'....
Japan's largest underground shopping district is the Umeda underground mall in the city of Osaka . The mall connects with several subway stations next to hotels , banks , and high-rise office buildings . A giant red Ferris wheel sits atop a nine-stor...
the built environment, projects of all sizes and stages add to essential corridors and stopping points for a range of wildlife.Tasked with improving Warsaw's Pole Mokotowskie Park's natural sustainability,architecture company WXCA looked at ways of enhancing the elements that were already in place...
TaskedwithimprovingWarsaw’sPoleMokotowskiePark’snaturalsustainability,architecturecompanyWXCAlookedatwaysofenhancingtheelementsthatwerealreadyinplacetobettersupportwildlife.Oneofthemostvisiblemeanswastheremovalofthousandsofsquaremetresofconcrete(混凝土).Removingconcreteinandaroundpondsandotherwaterwaysallowsthecity’s...
In January, 36 out of 70 large and medium-sized cities saw month-on-month rises in new home sales prices, up from 15 in December. Meanwhile, prices for lived-in homes rose in 13 cities, up from seven in the previous month, while 57 cities recorded decreases, compared with 63 in Decem...
U.S. Rises in Best Countries Rankings America's No. 3 spot in the annual U.S. News project is a high-water mark, but comes as nearly half of survey respondents see a negative global impact from a potential Trump presidency. Elliott Davis Jr.Sept. 10, 2024 ...
The history of skyscrapers in Dubai began with the construction of the Dubai World Trade Centre in 1979, regarded as the city’s first high-rise. Today, the center houses not only the world’s tallest building but also the world’s second-tallest hotel and residence. The Burj Al Arab, bu...
Cities had both increasing building fractional cover and increasing microwave backscatter (correlating with building volume), but over the three decades, growth rates in building fraction decreased in most regions and large cities, while growth rates in backscatter increased in essentially all regions ...
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated (人口密集的)cities in the world, but with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, it gains a bad reputation for its light pollution.意思为:香港是世界上人口最密集的城市之一,但是这个城市晚上的亮光是世界可接受水平的...
Alex Pentland is the Toshiba professor of media, arts and sciences at MIT. His theory of ‘social physics’ posits, simply, that people are at their most innovative when they are connected, collaborating on original ideas, and when the “wisdom of the crowd” rises above the “madness” of...