A look at China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through case studies of the automated systems enabling urban and socio-political resilience.

A look at the intersection of platform capitalism, gig labor, the refugee crises, and COVID-19.

An overview of the final projects of the first year of Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming design research program.

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A transmedia exploration of the politics and aesthetics of pyramids in the era of wild capitalism.

A newly released photographic book by Zupagrafika sheds light on the Soviet architecture of Siberia.

Moscow’s Traffic Control Center and the performative mythology of congestion management reveals cultural narratives of the city as a real-time digital model and calls for alternative literacies of model-making and urban simulation.

Melbourne has no choice but to approach congestion as a multiple bottom-line investment, actually representing the best tool for an ecology of institutions to foster new cultures of density, mobility, and responsible land use in the city.

Mexico City’s site and historical legacy portray how the negative externalities of congestion paradoxically reveal the positive impacts of urban density, and the need to plan cities as resilient ecological infrastructures.