Urbanization: The Rise With the rise of Urbanization, cities will soon face the issue of accommodating an influx of citizens. This will result in increased housing developments, and for land-scarce urban centers, increase in high-rises. After all, if a city cannot or will not expand outward due to any variety of reasons, the only way...
According to the world’ largest publicly traded company, ExxonMobil, meeting energy demands in 2040 won’t be all that different from today. Well that’s not entirely true, because as you will read below, we’re going to be getting a whole lot more efficient at managing the energy we use. The full report, which you can find...
Technologies of the future will owe much to the space industry as they do today, but what of our future in space itself? Though the space cities that sprawl across our science fiction may be some way off, we have already taken our first faltering steps in that direction. The International Space Station continues to...
![The Future of Trash-Based Bio-Fuels [Infographic]](http://urbnfutr.theurbn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/waste-to-fuel-from-rochestercitynewspaper-com-290x286.jpg "The Future of Trash-Based Bio-Fuels [Infographic]")
If it takes one ton of garbage to generate 70 gallons of ethanol, is it really worthwhile? By decreasing the need to chop down trees, triggering new employment sectors and overhauling the way in which we power our vehicles… It seems trash-based bio-fuels will assume a strong ranking in the future of energy on Planet...
Now and When, an exhibition curated by John Gollings, Ivan Rijavec and Craig Bremner, was Australia’s response to the 2010 Venice Biennale theme ‘people meet in architecture’. The exhibition was composed in two parts. The first was a photographic essay ‘NOW’ by esteemed Australian photographer John Gollings documenting the catastrophic, yet strangely beautiful reality of ‘digging up the west to build...
Albert Einstein once said, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Leonardo da Vinci exemplifies the pertinence of Einstein’s comment, for as an illegitimate child da Vinci was exempt from receiving a formal education and thus self-taught; learning much of what he knew from his personal observations of the natural world....
