This Hotel Is Made Entirely Of Shipping Containers
Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy.
What Bill Gates Is Focusing On In 2013
In his annual letter, the billionaire looks to the year ahead in his quest to end disease and poverty in the developing world, as the Millennium Development Goals loom.
A Ugandan University Is Building Its Own Homegrown Smartphone
First an electric car, then a smartphone. Uganda’s Makerere University is bursting with innovations.
Read Bill Gates’ Annual Letter For 2013
Transforming Ugly Construction Sites Into Urban Hangouts
The Softwalks project takes the ugly construction sheds that dot the front of buildings under renovation and turns them into places to help increase the social fabric of the city.
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Bringing Dance Dance Revolution Into Gym Class
Getting kids moving is becoming a more and more difficult task. One health care provider figured that one way to bring obesity down would be to give the kids what they want: video games.
France Will Force All Businesses To Turn The Lights Off At Night
A Framework For Creating A Thriving Detroit Of The Future
A new plan outlines how the Motor City can go from grabbing headlines about decay to being a model for a new kind of American urban center.
This Entire City Of Inanimate Objects Can Now Talk To You Via Text
"Hello Lamp Post" is a project that gives voice to the infrastructure in Bristol, England, by letting anyone with a phone text with mailboxes, fire hydrants, and lampposts. What will the lamppost say, is the question.
The Top 10 Biking Cities In America, Mapped By How People Commute
These beautiful maps--where each dot represents one commuter--create beautiful impressions of each city’s transportation patterns.
