Trends in Apartment Renting
A big part of how well a city functions is is affordable it is for people to live there, and in order to plan policy we need to be able to see what the trends of apartment renting are. This infographic from Ren...
Cincinnati’s Streetcar Project looks to be the first casualty of the 2013 Municipal elections
On Tuesday, municipal elections across the United States brought fourth a lot of change to the way urban policy will be shaped in the coming years. While we await to see how the policies of many new big-city ma...
The Killer Commute
Is your daily commute so bad that it is actually taking years off of your life? This inographic from College@Home shows some revealing data on how the commute increases anger, increases risk of heart attack, an...
Does City Living Make Us Happy?
Cover for Charles Montgomery's "Happy City".
Urbanists have often touted the notion that city living makes us happier and healthier, but is there any real science to back this up? After all, historically ci...
Anatomy of a Smart City
Tomorrow's urban problems will be solved in smart cities. This infographic from postscapes.com shows us what the smart city looks like, how the city works as a platform, and how the slum dwellers will better ut...
A 140 acre forest is about to pop up in Detroit
The lower east side of Detroit is about to get a make-over. Hantz Woodlands (formerly known as Hantz Farms), has reached a deal with the State of Michigan to purchase 1,500 parcels of non-continuous land for th...
London and Paris: The Urban Head to Head
A tale of two cities. London and Paris, two of the world most famous and glamorous cities are compared in this infographic. Numerous comparisons are made including notes on architecture, population, family fun ...
In the works for over 150 years, Istanbul’s New Tunnel Finally links Europe and Asia
In 1860, as the United States was in the early stages of their Civil War, Sultan Abdülmecid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in present day Turkey hatched a plan to construct a tunnel that would link th...
The Greenest Ways to get around
With concern about personal carbon footprints growing, people are giving more thought to how they get from point A to point B. This infographic from cheapcarinsurance.net breaks down how different modes of driv...
Groningen: The World’s Cycling City
Bicycles in Groningen.
From the StreetFilms Vimeo description:
It's no secret that just about anywhere you go in the Netherlands is an incredible place to bicycle. And in Groningen, a northern city with ...