“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo. Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. [...]

“Essen for the Ruhr“, is the capital of Culture 2010. It represents 53 cities, towns and districts and 5.3 million inhabitants, making it the third largest conurbation in Western Europe (after London and Paris). It is the first time that the capital of culture has been designated to an entire region (it’s usually a city) [...]

‘IT and the cITy’ is part of a seven month research project entitled ‘The promise of invisibility – Technology and the City’ written and researched by Nishant Shah, Director of research at the Centre for Internet and Society , in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University. Nishant Shah, tells ten stories [...]

Praise and constructive criticism from Jeff Speck, co-author of ‘Suburban Nation’, on New York City’s recent Street Design Manual “Do you need to buy this $35 book? Yes, if you are involved in any way in the design of city streets. Yes, also, if you can plop it on the lap of someone who is. [...]

‘Design Revolution:100 Products That Empower People” is a book by Emily Pilloton, industrial designer and founder of Project H design a charitable organization that supports, creates, delivers, and scales life-improving humanitarian product design solutions. The book, which has caused a lot of excitement on the blogsphere, tweetspace and in design circles all over, showcases 100 [...]