New Year’s Eve is a major night for celebrations, with people packing into cities for fireworks, parties, dining and live ...

Billionaires are planning their own for-profit private cities across the world, from Forest City in Malaysia to Prospera in Honduras. Former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan said ...

Connecting the dots: By applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery, researchers have built an unprecedented database of man-made structures across the globe. The data could reshape ...

Move over, Austin! Texas' capital turned self-proclaimed weirdest city has been snubbed by one of its neighboring communities, with the growing Central Texas suburb named among the best places to move ...

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...

It's has been a standout year for Indian bars and restaurants, with chefs and culinary entrepreneurs earning global recognition.

For years, Houston has proven to be a magnetic destination, attracting people from across the nation and around the world. Over the past decade, according to data from the Census Bureau, the region's ...

FOR SEVEN decades Tokyo was considered the world’s most populous city. That was 15 years too long, according to data released last month by the UN. Until recently the organisation’s statisticians ...

Step aside, Google Maps; stand down, Apple Maps. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany have created a new online atlas that shows the location of 2.75 billion buildings ...

In this age of megastorms, visionary designers around the world are taking clever advantage of the chance to rethink what they rebuild. Here’s how the smartest places are finding surprising ...

Locals make predictions and more Predicting the future is a dicey business. A year ago, who could have imagined some of the ...