Urban

The winners of the Urban Photo Awards 2023 have been unveiled. It’s a collection of images that celebrate the diversity of city life, from the mundane to the extraordinary and everything in between.

As urban underground landscapes heat up, the swelling and contraction they're experiencing is putting stress on the buildings above that they weren't designed to handle. So says a new study that calls the effect a "silent hazard."

Scientists have enlisted a new kind of helper to monitor the microbiomes of cities: the honeybee. Analyzing the debris from their hives has revealed much about what's happening at the microorganism level in cities around the world.

In a new study, scientists from China, Europe and Australia have examined how rapid urbanization has affected an often overlooked area of biodiversity, soil biodiversity, and how it has impacted human health.

Vaast Bikes is at Eurobike this week, where the company is announcing the global launch of a step-through urban ebike called the E/1, which employs a full suspension system designed to smooth out the ride, no matter how much cargo is being hauled.

Strange sights and eccentric compositions abound in this year’s Urban Photo Awards, the finalists of which have just been announced. Now in its 12th year, this unique photography contest showcases weird and wonderful visions of modern life.

New Atlas presents a hand-picked selection of the weird and wonderful entries this year’s Urban Photo Awards. In its 11th year, the Urban Photo Awards continues to focus on images that explore the fabric of urban life.

In its 11th year, the Urban International Photo Awards continues its dedicated focus on modern life, from the grand architectural spaces of big cities, to more rural small-town experiences. Here's a selection of finalists from the 2020 competition.

The top 50 urban photos from photography social network Agora span an incredible array of subjects and styles. Covering everything from drone shots to surreal portraits, these spectacular images encapsulate the diverse and lively energy of city life.

This year's CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition asked photographers to envision life in a city of the future. Spanish photographer Alfonso Béjar took out the grand prize with a glorious shot of Valencia's futurist City of Arts and Sciences.

Urban Density is an extraordinary photographic series from travel photographer Dietrich Herlan. The series primarily examines high-density government apartment blocks in Hong Kong, finding profoundly symmetrical compositions in architecture that is often considered ugly, impersonal and Brutalist.

As we look forward to a 21st century filled with massive mega-cities, and extraordinary technological innovation, we must ask how are our science fiction visions influencing the cities we build, and what can we learn from some of these prescient fictional texts?