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Imagine waking up in a dystopian world where all trees are plastic, where all streets are buried in piles of trash, where pollution is so bad you can’t see the sky, and where rivers have turned into concrete.

To reduce the impact of our cities on the planet, FABRICations advocate for a rethink of urban systems, and a core examination of what a city is.

Image 10 of 40 from gallery of Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center / Playze + Schmidhuber. Photograph by CreatAR Images

the shanghai greenland center by architecture office nikken sekkei forms the city's largest urban park at approximately 20,000 m2.

Home Sweet Home

This multi-sensory urban garden in Favara, Italy, features a landscaped terrace with plants, seating and paths with a hexagon pattern.

The overcrowded landscape of Seoul seems to lack unity and style with its mix of skyscrapers, high-rise apartment buildings and low-rise houses that crowd the hilltop towns. “Foreigners often ask me why Korean urban architecture lacks unity. In fact, the bizarre, spontaneous cityscape is the result of the floor-area ratio limit,” said Kim Sung-hong, architecture professor at University of Seoul and commissioner f...

Three major flaws with the idea that most city interstates are here to stay.

Slums, shanty-towns, favelas - they are all products of an exploding migration from rural to urban areas. Over the last half century, people living...

When we look at towering skyscrapers, we usually enjoy how majestic they make the skyline look. But every structure casts a shadow.