When a city design gets it right it becomes a generator of well-being. It can be just a great place to live. It can have just the right...

ChatGPT is a new kind of digital text generator that is supposed to create text and information. It has been making quite a stir in...

We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...

There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...

When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...

Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...

Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...

Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...

Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify...

Date: September 30, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably...

Berlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the...

Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...