• January 3 2026
  Technology

  How to unclog our cities

  Instant deliveries take their toll on urban centres but rewarding a few minutes’ delay can help

  
• September 5 2025
  US politics & policy

  Don’t make federal architecture beautiful again

  A nation once defined by experimentation risks turning its buildings — and culture — into a nostalgic echo

  
• August 21 2025
  Environment

  Trees are a quieter way to cool our cities

  Urban forestry used with precision can reduce the temperature several degrees without straining the power grid

  
• May 17 2025
  ReviewArchitecture

  Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 — welcome to the age of adaptation

  Curator Carlo Ratti has created a laboratory cum exhibition with a focus on repairing and remaking the world

  
• April 23 2025
  Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

  Venice Architecture Biennale’s Carlo Ratti: ‘People talk about mitigating climate change harm but it’s too late’

  The curator promises an exhibition on how architecture can offer solutions by adapting itself to extreme conditions

  
• January 10 2024
  Transport

  Don’t mourn the hyperloop — the train trumps it every time

  Attempts to shorten journeys such as that from Paris to London are exciting, but ultimately not worth striving for

  
• November 6 2023
  Urban planning

  Fifteen-minute cities are about convenience, not conspiracy

  Despite the wild accusations, this is about providing parks and grocery stores within walking distance of people’s homes

  
• August 6 2023
  Artificial intelligence

  Welcome to a world where AI can value your home

  If you thought that your neighbours were judgmental about the state of your front lawn, get ready for the bots

  
• April 25 2022
  Disrupters

  Ride-hailing apps should work with taxis to reduce the price of anarchy

  Uber’s recent move to make peace with an old foe in New York must be a sign of things to come

  
• February 22 2016
  Telecoms

  Mobiles could be the secret to ‘smart’ cities

  Waze’s Connected Citizens programme shows how local authorities can use smartphone data

  
• June 19 2015
  News in-depthSustainability

  Google and the tech industry search for ‘smart city’

  Sidewalk Labs adopts ‘bottom-up’ approach to improving living costs, transport and energy use

  
• November 28 2014
  FT MagazineSimon Kuper

  Urbanism: the new ideas for city living

  ‘Working in cafés is very 2003. The next step: working in parks, even in winter’
• August 31 2006
  Technology sector

  Rome – as you’ve never seen it before