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Lucas Meyer focuses on design communities, creative industries, and urban branding through cultural districts.
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Using the Pearl River Basin as a thread, this study explores the spatial distribution, cultural differences, and conservation strategies of national intangible cultural heritage between the upper mountainous regions and the lower delta, revealing how this river has shaped a dynamic cultural ecology.
From street corners to digital maps, computing science is quietly changing our perception and experience of urban safety.
In the heart of New York City, an immersive banquet themed around Vietnam's Hue royal cuisine redefines the urban dining experience with thousands of handmade dumplings, lantern desserts, and group karaoke.
When urban streets say goodbye to cars, how do communities regain vitality? From New York to Paris, the car-free movement is reshaping urban lifestyles.
Josh Kline's viral article reveals how high housing prices in New York and London are driving artists out of creative spaces. But should artists really flee? Or stay and rebuild their communities?
In Lyon, bouchon restaurants are more than just places to eat—they are vessels of the city's soul. This article follows a diner's exploration, revealing the culinary culture, historical threads, and modern significance behind those red-and-white checkered tablecloths: why we still need this rustic and bountiful experience.
"Nature·Cities" latest study reveals profound changes in global urban population age, gender, and migration patterns from 2000 to 2020 using data from over 10,000 cities. These data not only provide tools for urban planners but also allow us to glimpse the underlying logic of the evolution of urban lifestyles.
The cultural and creative industries in the Middle East are undergoing a quiet revolution: transitioning from reliance on government subsidies to a market-driven, mixed-financing ecosystem. This not only transforms the economic structure of cities but also redefines the lifestyles of young people and urban cultural spaces.
A study covering more than 10,000 cities worldwide has redrawn the changes in urban population structure from 2000 to 2020: age, gender, and migration patterns have diverged significantly across different cities. Rather than simply saying “cities are growing,” a more important question is: who is staying, who is arriving, who is leaving, and how are these changes quietly reshaping neighborhoods, consumption, work, and public space?
From sports events and neighborhood revitalization to the reconfiguration of dining and lodging, Las Vegas is transforming from a city defined by gambling tables into one that is worth walking through, lingering in, and exploring.
From the high-end membership-only gyms in Soho, London, to the class schedules of young people in New York and the Bay Area, fitness is becoming new social infrastructure, shifting from body management to a social framework.
From a public radio program in Iowa to the global discussion on North American Indigenous food sovereignty, Sean Sherman is turning “what to eat” back into a conversation about land, memory, and urban ways of life.