In an exciting announcement, New York’s MTA is working on new, streamlined developments for its bus line.

Posterchild has embarked on a new project which envisions a new future for the underused and abandoned pay phone booths which dot the urban landscape.

Barcelona is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Eixample extention with a special time capsule.

PSFK caught up with Hiromi Matsubara at our recent Good Ideas in Pure Living event in Tokyo.

PSFK caught up with Rie Azuma at our recent Good Ideas in Pure Living event in Tokyo.

In this video, Francois Bancon, Nissan’s General Manager, Marketing and Communication Group, Global Zero Emission Business Unit, took a few minutes to chat with the audience about Nissan’s vision for a zero-emission future.

New York City is making life easier for bikers and pedestrians.

In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with an international panel of experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.

In Tigard, Oregon Kittelson & Associates are taking a page from “desire paths” (natural trails that evolve over time) and creating a network of walking paths to connect the town.

Urban Places is a project that aims to collect a compendium of user-submitted photographs and descriptions of favourite urban spaces.

The City Dark is an upcoming film that looks at light pollution, and the disappearance of the nighttime.

David Byrne has composed an inspiring article where he lays out his version of a perfect city. Combining standout elements from different areas around the planet, Byrne’s imaginary city sounds like a fantastic place to live, and could be used as a real blueprint for future urban planners.

We’ve seen many examples of conceptual vertical farming, and of course high-rise living – but what about a combination of the two? Architects from Tzannes Associates in Sydney have dreamed up just such an idea with their Skyburbs concept design.

The Brooklyn Typology Project is an unbelievably informative and multi-layered work by artist and urban planner Neil Freeman that merges the aesthetics, history and demographics of Brooklyn within a tapestry of web links.
2100 photographs were taken to represent each of Brooklyn’s block groups, and clicking on each photo leads to a storehouse of data about a particular neighborhood- census numbers, the age and type of the neighboring structures, and historical information. All of this is meant to provide insight into the borough’s dense and varied population, layout, and design.
This project and others are gathered on Mr. Freeman’s site- Fake Is [...]

Walk a little too fast and you might miss it, but nestled in the heart of Brooklyn off the Jefferson L train, a group of artists, activists, and golf lovers have turned a tiny slice of abandoned property into a nine-hole miniature golf course called THE PUTTING LOT. While PSFK reported on in it’s eminent opening in May , this golf course isn’t merely for recreational use- it’s become part of a master plan of it’s creators to promote sustainability, urban renewal, and eco-consciousness. Each of the nine putting holes was designed by a different team of artists and architects [...]