urbanism

Paris, Krakow: the crop of Europe's pretty urban green

The tallest building in the world, the 828 metre (2716 ft) high Burj Khalifa skyscraper, was unveiled in Dubai at the beginning of January. Nowadays the question is more of building outwards rather than upwards, with four buzzwords - happiness, ecology,  smartness and economy - via two city models

by aniela @ // 04/02/10

urbanism, paris, future of europe, cracow, futur, cities, society

Brussels: the old age of youth

The crisis is synonymous with young unemployent. The capital of Europe is currently baiting its breath for the European elections between 4 and 7 June 2009. Within, 33% are young jobshunters. Yet the Belgian capital remains an Eldorado for internships, its opportunities in multinationals and for being a fairground for new European politics. We feel for the precarities of the days, its languages and the nights. Three journalists, a video maker and a photographer from the cafebabel.com network feature in this month's 'cities' mission, named 'EUdebate on the Ground'

• Brussels crisis: be creative, become an entrepeneur
• Languages: Dutch amidst French in bilingual Brussels
• Brussels: did you know that 20% of EU workers work at night?
• Brussels: a city of life-long interns

Andrew Todd: ‘the Gehrys and the Libeskinds don’t add anything to a city’

The forty-year-old British-born architect, ranked one of the world’s top forty, on working under Jean Nouvel, ‘airport architects’ and why European cities should ditch their showcase images

by Filippo Lubrano @ // 22/09/08

urbanism, architecture, andrew todd, frank gehry, daniel libeskind, brunch, jean nouvel