December 06, 2010

San Francisco, Infinite City

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

The invisible geographies of San Francisco are revealed in this new collection of maps and essays about that city.

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November 15, 2010

Skyscrapers of the Dead

By Colin Dickey

While vertical cemeteries may seem like a radical proposition to relieve urban areas, they were first suggested by nineteenth-century cemetery reformers.

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November 09, 2010

The Renaissance of City-States

By Marcello Simonetta

Renaissance Italy was a patchwork of city-states, each controlled with varying degrees of tyranny and liberty.

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November 01, 2010

China’s Instant Cities, Thirty Years On

By Ross Perlin

When China began aggressive economic and urban development in the 1980s, the character of its cities changed forever.

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October 04, 2010

The Master Architect

By Peter Foges

In 1974 Albert Speer recalled Hitler’s tour of the great European cities, and the Führer’s plan to reshape Berlin as his empire’s new Rome.

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September 28, 2010

Santiago, Boom Town

By Nathaniel Parish Flannery

The capital of Chile is experiencing an architectural boom that may only widen the gap between rich and poor.

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September 27, 2010

The Wrestler Princess

By Jack Weatherford

The Mongolian princess who was the inspiration for Turandot rejected any man she deemed athletically inferior.

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September 27, 2010

The Last of the Floating Worlds

By Cora Currier

The floating city, by water or air, can be a libertarian escape or an environmental utopia.

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September 17, 2010

Every City Has a Sex and an Age

By Michelle Legro

Is Paris a young man in love or London an charming orphan? We asked the internet the sex and age of their hometown or adopted city.

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