urban planning

Slow Down and Live: How Europe's 30 km/h Revolution Is Saving Lives From Graz to Amsterdam, a quiet transformation is reshaping urban streets — and the data proves it's working. There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has watched a child dart across a cobblestone street or a cyclist squeeze...

Modern architecture can be bland and depressing. People do not want to live in soulless apartment blocks, but in neighbourhoods with beautiful traditional architecture. That is why when a town extension was planned for Knokke-Heist in Belgium, developers had to stick to the traditional Flemish...

Concrete, and more specifically reinforced concrete, has allowed humans to build huge structures, like bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers, which have revolutionised the urban landscape since the mid-20th century. But concrete has been overused. Cities have been defaced by ugly concrete buildings...

This video captures exactly how I've been feeling all my adult life about modern architecture. Many famous architect strive to create the most original buildings possible without thinking about their functionality, how it fits within the city where it is built, or even whether they are...

It's a well-known fact that city is in the US and Canada are very car-centric. But what does that mean exactly and why is that a bad thing? Here are several videos that explain very well why life in such cities is much less pleasant, less convenient, more time consuming, and even more dangerous...