Cities

A real apartment complex was built like a LEGO set
Renco, a system combining LEGO-like blocks and color-coded building plans, could be the future of construction.
These cities are working alongside nature to become flood-proof
Barriers, floodgates, aqueducts, empty wells — how these cities are adapting to floods and droughts.
Researchers brew a stronger concrete using — coffee?
Researchers and engineers from RMIT University made concrete 30% stronger in the lab by incorporating aggregates made from coffee grounds.
Nature-based solutions are cleaning up cities
Open-source map could empower pedestrians in car-filled cities
Watch: London’s “rolling bridge”
Could 3D printing help solve the US housing crisis?
World’s largest 3D-printed affordable housing project launches in Kenya
How Singapore’s “Garden City” vision fused nature and urban design like nowhere else
Coastal cities created 40 Manhattans’ worth of new land since 2000
You can build a house out of this super-grass material
Extreme heat is changing habits of daily life
Two-story 3D-printed house is first of its kind in the US