urban geography

Cabins in this ski resort are only listed by numbers, causing confusion among tourists and emergency responders. Source: Knut Røsrud / NRK

With Only Numbers and No Street Names, This Norwegian Town is Confusing Tourists

Caitlin Dempsey

A Norwegian municipality decided to only give the chalets in a development numbers with no corresponding street names.  

What is Necrotecture?

Caitlin Dempsey

Necrotecture is an urban planning coined termed by Rowland Atkinson to describe the "dead residential space" created by a high density of mostly vacant residential dwellings.

Will Self-Driving Cars Make Traffic Worse?

Caitlin Dempsey

The World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group studied the possible effects of autonomous vehicles on Boston's future traffic.

Review | The Nocturnal City

Caitlin Dempsey

Robert Shaw's newly published book, The Nocturnal City, is an effort to delve into the city at night which is a “very different time-space from day.”

Review | A History of the Future

G.T. Dempsey

The History of Future presents a survey of the history of futuristic predictions from the nineteenth century on through the first two-thirds of the twentieth, in the English-speaking world