Self-healing cities will fix their own potholes
12 January 2016
Armies of dedicated repair bots and buildings made of smart materials will make our cities more resilient in the face of wear and tear – and natural disasters
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3D-printing earthquake-proof towns, brick by brick
27 October 2015
We can build structures that resettle after quakes, and self-cooling homes – the trick is to 3D print custom building blocks, not whole buildings
New Urbanist: Why your windowsill will need its own address
29 September 2015
As we begin to share our cities with autonomous machines, street names and house numbers could soon be a thing of the past
New Urbanist: Our infrastructure is expanding to include animals
5 May 2015
Animals are vital for the functioning of modern cities, but we need to be morally prepared when we inevitably start engineering them for specific urban tasks
