Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice The controversial, complex and asymmetrical composition of the facade of Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice constitutes an anomaly for its time. In contrast with the traditional practice of the Renaissance, the Scuola’s elaborate shell was built at the same time as rebuildin…

In Liget Park, near Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music – and on one of the many concrete islets shaped after the building – the Montreal studio Daily tour les jours has created Cimbalom. The permanent interactive artwork is named after a stringed instrument invented in Budapest in 1874. And to the delight of visitors and pa…

Non-smokers’ spatial transactions with smokers in semi-outdoor areas with restorative qualities have been investigated. In the process, the impact of smoking inbreak spaceson non-smokers’ behavior in negotiating mutual spatial boundaries was studied. The areas with restorative qualities were defined as places wh…

If current trends continue, the future of humankind is in cities, and urban childhoods are set to become the global norm. Yet, as they grow, few cities work well for their inhabitants. Too many – in high-, middle- and low-income countries – are polluted, car-dominated and inequitable. How might we improve the built…

With billions of dollars available to improve transportation infrastructure, states have a chance to try new strategies for addressing congestion. But some habits are hard to break. Interstate 710 in Los Angeles is, like the city itself, famous for its traffic. Freight trucks traveling between the city and the port…

Introduction Urban Africans have long made lives that have worked. There has been an astute capacity to use thickening fields of social relations, however, disordered they may be, to make city life viable. Yet, if the primary resource that urban Africans have had to draw upon to make their cities has essentially b…