Up-and-coming is often used to describe a neighbourhood’s upward trajectory, but we rarely consider the nature of this change and what the place was like before.
In a decades long process which started with the independent store, companies like Walmart and Amazon are destroying physical shopping space in city centres.
Gerald Babel-Sutter, founder and CEO of the URBAN FUTURE global conference (UFGC), on the important role of mayors, city planners and urban decision-makers.
The Horton Plaza Mall in Downtown San Diego was once vivid and colourful. The bright colours may still be there, but the consumers have gone: it has become a ruin of a mall. The property developer Stockdale now wants to convert it into a high-tech campus with entertainment facilities. A last visit to a remnant of history.
Hiding in plain sight, the words that developers use to describe their projects reveal an awful lot about the kind of city they’re trying to create.
In military strategy and global trade, the chokepoint is one of the most interesting ways in which geography can be used to mess with the powers that be.
