Urban area

The overcrowded landscape of Seoul seems to lack unity and style with its mix of skyscrapers, high-rise apartment buildings and low-rise houses that crowd the hilltop towns. “Foreigners often ask me why Korean urban architecture lacks unity. In fact, the bizarre, spontaneous cityscape is the result of the floor-area ratio limit,” said Kim Sung-hong, architecture professor at University of Seoul and commissioner f...

Imagine waking up in a dystopian world where all trees are plastic, where all streets are buried in piles of trash, where pollution is so bad you can’t see the sky, and where rivers have turned into concrete.

Today in conventional wisdom–busting news, we learn that grimy old cities are attracting more residential construction than the bright suburban frontier. Urban redevelopment is outpacing fringe sprawl by a solid margin, according to a new EPA study of the nation’s 50 largest metro areas. It’s a “fundamental shift in the real estate market,” says the […]

the shanghai greenland center by architecture office nikken sekkei forms the city's largest urban park at approximately 20,000 m2.

Image 34 of 40 from gallery of Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center / Playze + Schmidhuber. Site plan

40 photos of NYC during Quarantine Showcasing what New York City looks like by neighborhood through this photography diary. New York Aesthetic. Astor Place New York City Photography

Slums, shanty-towns, favelas - they are all products of an exploding migration from rural to urban areas. Over the last half century, people living...

This three-bedroom London apartment is swathed in greens, in a nod to Chelsea Barracks’ military past.

Three major flaws with the idea that most city interstates are here to stay.

Seoullo 7017 runs above Seoul Station