Urban Demographics

credit to  Urban Memes Crushing NIMBY Dreams

25% of students think they are in the top 1% of social skills. 94% of professors think their work is better than their peers.  The Social ...

Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities in the USA Neat 3D globe animation of atmospheric flow on Earth Le...

The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest  via Leo Monasterio A city of Pure imagination : great visual work of  Víctor Enric...

the Zipper building, by  Victor Enrich [image credit:  Victor Enrich ]

Large cities are less green  (via  Araz Taeihagh ). Disputable, but very interesting. Apparently, the entire human population could fit ...

Oscar Niemeyer and his buildings - Some of them are incredibly beautiful. Most of them are incredibly nonfunctional After-tax income in d...

A few comments by Chris Bertram (Crooked Timber) on Brasília  (ht Pedro Souza ) "As a new city, built on the red highland earth in...

Chinese Architecture, Old and New . Awesome pictures! (via Tyler Cowen)

Brasília from Above (by Bento Viana ) Oscar Niemeyer passed away yesterday ( obituary ). He was considered as the greatest Brazil...

I bumped into these bizarre and still beautiful Modernist Monuments . I would say that we have something similar here in Brasília in a much ...

Is Modern architecture dead? Pratik Mhatre ( Urban Planning Blog ) posted the trailer for the documentary film "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: ...