We need smarter cities, not “smart cities”
The term “smart cities” originated as a marketing strategy for large IT vendors. It has now become synonymous with urban
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cities
The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
In 1959, in a short essay called “The Great Game to Come,” a little-known Dutch visual artist named Constant Nieuwenhuys
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The Download: Retrofitting cities, and Alexa mimics the dead
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
Read more The future of urban housing is energy-efficient refrigerators
The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of the New York City Housing
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The delivery apps reshaping life in India’s megacities
From 7 a.m. until well past dusk, seven days a week, N. Sudhakar sits behind the counter of his hole-in-the
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Inside the experimental world of animal infrastructure
In the mid-2000s, toads were meeting a gruesome end near Ede, an old, leafy town in the middle of the
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Crypto millionaires are pouring money into Central America to build their own cities
Every day, a repurposed garbage truck ferries visitors up El Salvador’s Conchagua Volcano to an ecotourism retreat. The vehicle thunders
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