More than half of the worlds population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050.
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Renzo Piano is a builder of shelters for human beings and communities.
World Landscape of the Year 2017 teaches people about Chinas farming history.
Symmetry has always been a source of obsession in architecture. In Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and later during the Renaissance, symmetry was used as a way to find true beauty, while in the early Modern movement its eradication was an essential part of breaking with history.
Milan-based artist Briancoshock turns abandoned manhole covers into fully decorated miniature rooms.
The Seabin is a revolution in ocean cleaning technology. It will help create cleaner oceans with healthier marine life.
Forests do not have to be far flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kick start natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
Architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in this 1972 BBC documentary.
“I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth,” says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and communications networks, we evolve from geography to what he calls “connectography.” This emerging global network civilisation holds the promise of reducing pollution and inequality and even overcoming geopolitical rivalries. In this talk, Khanna asks us to embrace a new maxim for the future: “Connectivity is destiny.”