CITIES: News in Brief
What’s happening in green design, architecture, urban life, sustainability ?Check out our notes on Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Paris, Baku, Delhi, Rotterdam, and New York, the newly awarded European Green Capital for […]
Category Archives: Europe
Milan Expo 2015
MAY 1 marks the opening of the 2015 Expo Milano (Milan Expo) – a six month global showcase and exposition in Milan, Italy, around a universal theme, Feeding the Planet: […]
Earth Heroes: Goldman Environmental Prize 2015
The 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize awards were announced today in San Francisco on the Goldman Youtube channel. The six environmental activists who are being recognized with this year’s prize come from Kenya, Myanmar, […]
Coming Up: Spring & Plenty of New Stories
Get over it! Winter, that is. We’re all ready for the fresh start and promise of spring and that means bringing you stories of inspired design, urban trends, wild spaces […]
Cities: Museums New & Coming
In cities large and small, look at the vibrant and growing arts scene worldwide — new museums, splendid opera halls, concert venues, old buildings turned to new uses – and […]
CITIES: China, Japan, Russia, Europe, Green Capitals
CITIES around the world are sizzling –transforming with urban design, revitalization. architecture, the arts, and smart technologies . This month we’ll look at trends in Europe’s green capitals, Amsterdam, Moscow, […]
Gift Books 2014: Cities
Our books for 2014 look back and ahead at cities’ history, design, destruction and revitalization, and their not-well-kept secrets. Something happened on the way to assembling this year’s book suggestions. […]
Berlin: The Wall and The City
Berlin as a city has a storied identity – as a canvas for art, entertainment, hedonism, evil, political rhetoric, a place that created world events and has reinvented itself after […]
Rotterdam Markthal: Shop, Eat, Live
Move over Copenhagen, Valencia, Budapest and Göteberg: The boldest food experience in Europe was inaugurated October 2 by Netherlands’ Queen Maxima – the shop-eat-live Markthal (Market Hall) in the historic […]
Cities: On the Road
Amsterdam is HOT! This city of 800,000– the size Detroit used to be in its glory days — packs a wallop culturally speaking. The Rijksmuseum with its glorious Dutch Masters paintings reopened […]
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