future-hopefull:

I want this as a huge poster on my wall

(Source: alexsnotsosecretworld, via coastalpalms)

View of Superkilen, Nørrebro

A kilometre-long public park that winds its way through an area to the north of Copenhagen’s city centre, Superkilen is dotted with surreal follies – from a giant Japanese octopus slide to a star-shaped Moroccan fountain – inspired by the many different nationalities that live in this diverse district.

London’s Design Museum announces it’s designs of the year. More info:

http://guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/mar/19/designs-year-2013-in-pictures

In 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine pub­lished a 25-year look ahead to 2013.

LA Times posted the vintage document online. Have a look to see if any of their predictions have come true.

http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/

Having worked on many projects in China, I’ve made similar observations. China’s cities are often making the same mistakes as America made on the path to superpower status.

Weapons of Mass Urban Destruction - By Peter Calthorpe from Foreign Policy Magazine

Check Out Foreign Policy Magazine’s Cities Issue

This special issue dedicated to the cities of the future has its eye squarely toward China, because the cities of the future are increasingly going to be speaking Mandarin — even more than you realize. It’s no longer news that China has embarked on the largest mass urbanization in history, a monumental migration from country to city that will leave China with nearly a billion urbanites by 2025 and an astonishing 221 cities with populations over 1 million. But this isn’t just about size: It’s about global heft. And that’s where the scale of China’s transformation into a world leader is truly astonishing. In an exclusive index for FP, the McKinsey Global Institute has run the numbers to produce what we’re calling The 75 Most Dynamic Cities of 2025 — an extraordinary 29 of which are in China. 

(via Cities Issue | Foreign Policy)

Concepts for Annedal, Sweden.

(via Besqab - Brf Båtsman, Annedal, Bromma - Mynewsdesk)

Could the stress of city life be increasing the risk of schizophrenia and other mental-health disorders?

Stress and the city: Urban decay  from Nature.com

French artist Armelle Caron explores in her playful series “Everything Tidy,” doing to cities what Ursus Wehrli does to art — deconstructing the familiar grid representations into “tidy” graphic anagrams of famous metropolises.

CityTracking is a two-year project, to change the way people view, talk about, utilize digital city services, and improve their urban lives

Spontaneous Interventions: is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012).

In recent years, there has been a nascent movement of designers acting on their own initiative to solve problematic urban situations, creating new opportunities and amenities for the public. Provisional, improvisational, guerrilla, unsolicited, tactical, temporary, informal, DIY, unplanned, participatory, opensource—these are just a few of the words that have been used to describe this growing body of work