Located in Northern New Taipei in Taiwan lies a district called Sanzhi, an area that was originally a vacation beach resort built in 1978. Unlike the beach houses that usually…
A “15 min city” is a new urban planning model that will change the designs of cities for years to come. Every need and want is located only 15 minutes…
Chan Chan was the royal capital of the Kingdom of Chimor that encompassed most of Peru’s northern and coastal region in A.D. 1000 and 1450. It is situated in the…
A rebel revolution and uprising that ended up as large-scale civil war—this is the Syria of today. Everyone well-informed in the last ten years knows about the downfall of the…
There is continuous evolution in architecture, whether it’s about construction technology or tools required to design. In 21 century, there is more sustainability, that is, buildings that conserve heat, reduce…
Over the course of human history, cities have painted their built environments creating eye-catching and mesmerizing color palettes. Colors in the urban environment have risen to counter the environmental factor…
As rightly quoted by Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities: “With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals…
Navi Mumbai is also called the twin city of Mumbai. Situated in the western suburbs of Mumbai, this city is the brainchild of eminent architect and urban designer Charles Correa,…
The story of Chinatown is the story of an old, immigrant neighborhood. It is a locality intricately woven into the fabric of the city of San Francisco, bounded by Broadway,…
With the widespread high-speed rail transportation system that has been an incentive towards urban growth in the twenty-first century, the train systems of normal speed have gradually been replaced, either…
The world is constantly growing, and people are looking for resources, opportunities, and intervention to create an advanced habitat. After the 4th industrial revolution, the human realm observed a shift…
Even with a very structured economic development plan many countries across Asia have a huge gap between the levels of development of rural and urban sectors. Urbanization, suburban sprawl, industrialization,…