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Order and Adaptation: What the New York Grid Teaches Us about Contemporary...
It’s not quite true that Manhattan’s street grid is two hundred years old. In fact, the year 2011 only marked the bicentennial of the project of establishing a regular and continuous grid north of 14th...
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How Would You Transform Your City? Share Your Ideas
We’re inviting people everywhere to join the process of making your own city. Working with GOOD, the Lab is looking for inspired visualizations of reimagined urban spaces. How would you transform a...
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How Do We Teach Children About Their Cities?
Despite the fact that I, like nearly 50 percent of the world’s children, grew up in cities, I was never taught to think of myself as a city citizen.
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What Is Beautiful? Q&A with Teddy Cruz
Architect Teddy Cruz is the last of three Berlin Lab Collaborators we invited to answer our one pressing question: In your eyes, what qualities make a city beautiful?
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Mumbai and the Mills: Part 1
Today, an estimated 90 percent of Mumbai’s population works in the “informal sector.” Much of this work takes place within the city’s slums, which house between 50 and 60 percent of the city’s population.
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Last Week at the Lab
It’s hard to believe, but the Lab wrapped up its final week of full-time programming here in Mumbai last week.
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Mumbai and the Mills: Part 2
If there’s one person who truly understands the social impact of Mumbai’s deindustrialization, it’s Datta Iswalker. Since the 1980s, he has been leading the fight to mitigate the social damages caused...
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Taking a Closer Look at SkyCycle
What could be wrong with an ambitious new bike infrastructure project? A lot, it turns out.
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An Urban Planner’s Guide to Seven Remarkable Things about Helsinki
Helsinki's Director of City Planning—a member of the jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition—shares some of his favorite aspects of his hometown.
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