Urban flooding is one of the most frequent and economically damaging natural hazards worldwide. With rapid urbanisation, growing exposure of assets in ...

City of Possibility contains an 18-feet by 20-feet wooden model of Portland’s urban core. Credit: Photo by Taylor Griggs Before ground is broken or bricks are laid on any building, architects get to ...

For an interactive article on business inside the Empire State Building, a New York Times team turned to interviews with tenants, vacancy listings, promotional materials and real estate data. By Sarah ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day—but after nearly a dozen years, Joe Macken completed Manhattan. Or, at least, a miniature model of it. The model is a tribute to the city he loves and grew up in—but it’s ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In this week's reprint, author Mark Alan Hewitt talks about models and their importance. "For those of us lucky enough to have grown up during the ...