When a city design gets it right it becomes a generator of well-being. It can be just a great place to live. It can have just the right...

ChatGPT is a new kind of digital text generator that is supposed to create text and information. It has been making quite a stir in...

We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...

There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...

When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...

Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...

In the aftermath of the global virus, the old "normal" just does not exist anymore. So we cannot simply "go back to normal". The streets...

Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...

Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...

There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...

This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...

Liberty Square in Taipei is quintessentially oriental. Also quintessentially euphemistic. The monumental Democracy Stairway on the right...