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A cultural corridor reviving the city
How Ana Elena Mallet built one of the biggest cultural festivals of Mexico City
‘We must heal our cities with technology and love’
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Guto Requena
A bridge to reconnect a deprived enclave in São Paulo
WDCD Live São Paulo 2017 report: Activation Session 16, Jardim Panorama
‘Patricia Espinosa is a great ally for me’
Aline Cavalcante (right) and Patricia Espinosa quickly connectedBiker activist Aline Cavalcante talks about her meeting with UNFCCC-head that originated from WDCD Live Amsterdam
Zero-carbon towns: science fiction or urban future?
Architecture student Damien Assini proposes masterplan for a carbon-free urban landscape
Help Amsterdam fight bicycle congestion
FlickBikes, one parked according to the rules, the other notNew free floating rental bikes confront the city with parking problems
Liuzhou Forest City will be entirely covered by trees
Construction has begun in southern China of the world’s first tree-clad city designed by Stefano Boeri
Traveling Ark wins Post-Fossil City Contest
The rules of the Ark's journey for participating citiesThe Ark of the Newest Covenant by BreukersGoderie will present Ten Sustainable Commandments to cities
Investigating how the future city can feed itself
IKEA’s innovation lab SPACE10 researches self-sustaining urban food production
An image sells more than a thousand words
Roxana Martínez to bring back the incredible vernacular design from the streets of Bogotá on the WDCD stage
A park with the features of a submarine
Carlo Ratti Associati presents master plan for a floating park in West Palm Beach, Florida
Information decrypted into architecture
On stage at WDCD Live São Paulo 2016: Jacob van Rijs, founder of MVRDV
Stubborn promotor of bicycle in São Paulo
Aline Cavalcante speaks at WDCD Live SP about her missions to get Paulistas pedaling
A design museum in the slums
Design Museum Dharavi was set up to explore the social impact of design on informal settlement community
Walls of green bring colour and air in the concrete desert
Landscape studio m.90 works on green corridor in São Paulo
DUS presents 3D printed tiny house
Inventors of the 3D Printed Canal House come up with printed mini-retreat
Silver Lion for Kunlé Adeyemi
Venice Architecture Biennale issues award for promising young participant to designer of Makoko Floating School
In support of marginalized urban communities
Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform (CMAP) helps disadvantaged communities to shape their city
Four-miles for accepted flâneries féminines
Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara designs a path for women in Niamey
Fabio Lopez tackles serious issues, one pictogram at a time
The Brazilian designer is the latest addition to the WDCD São Paulo programme
The lab that turns waste into business
Rotterdam steps into the blue economy with 'BlueCity010'
Artists in Kabul paint away the walls
Afghan graffiti artists turn blast walls into canvas
Crossing water and printing boundaries
Joris Laarman Lab announces in-stiu 3D printing of steel bridge in Amsterdam