Urban

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?

​The CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition has just revealed its 2018 winners. The resulting winners highlight some amazing snaps that often illustrate the growing disconnect between people and their lived environments.

This week is UN Road Safety Week, which highlights road traffic deaths and injuries and focuses on ways to reduce them. This year the week is headlined by the #SlowDown campaign, which is part of a plan to reduce road fatalities by 50 percent before 2020. Its suggestion? Lower speed limits.

Along with the usual concept cars, Mini has branched out to house and camping concepts in recent years. The latest Mini Living installation, launched in Milan, is an eco-minded six-floor house squeezed into a 50 square-meter (538 square-foot) urban plot. ​

A plan is afoot to ease the congestion of New York City's existing transportation system with cable cars. The East River Skyway proposal envisions a high-speed urban gondola that would provide swift transport between Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Renault is taking aim at the urban car market with a major redesign for the third-generation Twingo set at recapturing the spirit of the original release in 1992. Based on last year’s Twin’Z and Twin’Run concept cars, Renault calls the new Twingo a fun, ultra-maneuverable city car.

Inner city living can often mean cramped accommodation with little access to outdoor space. With this in mind, a project in Manchester, UK, is offering people the chance to book a garden for an hour at a time. Plot is a private urban garden that explores the notion of access rather than ownership.

Many projects in cities across the world have reclaimed disused areas to transform them into community spaces. New York's High Line and Sydney's Goods Line are two such examples. Now, a project in Liverpool, UK, hopes to transform a flyover into a urban park and alternative events space.

Cylo is a brand of urban bicycle that's completely new to the market, and its creators are so confident they've brought together the right mix of ingredients that they're claiming Cylo is the "ultimate urban bicycle."

Germany's affection for all things automotive may , with the city of Hamburg setting the wheels in motion for its "Green Network," a bold plan make cars an optional mode of transport in the city within 15-20 years.