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by Matt Baume • Jan 29, 2021 at 2:05 pm Hello, humans. Pacific Middle School's presentation Our future moon colony, built in 2096 in the Shackleton Crater, will generate oxygen and water from processed moon dust, will be powered by people pedaling elliptical bicycles, and will have “a church, for church stuff.” These are visions of the Washington students participating in the regional Future Cities competition, established to generate interest in STEM careers. This year’s mission: Design a city on the moon. Sponsored This weekend, a t...

The city and the sound: What a global survey during the pandemic could tell us about our future soundscapes Firstpost 08-01-2021 Suryasarathi Bhattacharya © Provided by Firstpost The city and the sound: What a global survey during the pandemic could tell us about our future soundscapes In the past five years that I have been living in Mumbai, I have got pretty accustomed to the madness this city is known for — from the jam-packed local trains thronged with a motley crowd; thousands of cars, taxis and bikes honking on the roads, to relatively quiet sea-fronts and quaint ...

The city and sound: What a global survey during the pandemic could tell us about our future soundscapes Future Cities is the latest venture helmed by the team of Cities and Memory, a larger global collaborative project, which in its current stage covers more than 100 countries and territories. Suryasarathi Bhattacharya January 08, 2021 09:55:32 IST Cities and Memory's latest and largest sound project - Future Cities. In the past five years that I have been living in Mumb...

Pratt Landing Masterplan. Image © Twining Properties Take New Rochelle, a town largely known as a commuter town just North of New York City- the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of one of the densest urban centers in the world. With easy access to transportation to and from Manhattan and a more reasonable cost of living, it’s an excellent example of a suburb that was designed out of the necessity to be just out of reach of urban life. But now, it’s identity is evolving away from being the escape from New York City, and rebranding itself as the “New New Rochelle”, or a town w...

Mumbai’s suburban rail network lives up to the moniker of being the city’s “lifeline” by transporting over 7.5 million passengers daily. However, lack of suitable last mile connectivity in the network causes passengers to rely on unsustainable modes for their last mile commutes. This significantly affects the advantages of high patronage of public transport and contributes to severe congestion on roads. The railways’ wide geographical presence across the city and access to 45% of the city’s commuters can be utilised to develop stations as the harbinger of futuristic and sustainabl...