Danish architecture studio BIG has designed Terminus AI City Operating System as a campus in Chongqing, China, that will be operated by an artificial intelligence system. More about BIG plans artificial intelligence-run city campus in China
Arnhem in the Netherlands has made a 10-year plan to re-landscape the city to cope with extreme flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change. More about Dutch city swaps asphalt for trees to adapt to climate change
The "qualities of the countryside" should be introduced to urban areas to help tackle climate change, says architect Chris Precht. More about Bring wilderness into cities to help solve climate change says Chris Precht
Cities across Europe and the Americas are drawing up plans to take street space away from cars in favour of cyclists and pedestrians in response to the coronavirus pandemic. More about London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians
Ahead of Monday's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. More about "We have a tendency to look at representations of new cities as a kind of pornography" said Michael Sorkin
Architecture firm MVRDV has collaborated with aircraft manufacturer Airbus to research how landing hubs for passenger drones, called vertiports, could become part of transportation networks in future cities. More about MVRDV and Airbus investigate how vertiports could be integrated into cities
Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs. More about A Metallic Villadrone movie by Studio MK27 depicts metabolist future city
"Future scenario thinking" is a technique developed by theatre director Zoe Svendsen to imagine the cities of tomorrow. In an interview with Dezeen, she says architects could use it to design better urban futures. More about Architects can use theatre techniques to "reframe reality" says Zoe Svendsen
Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs is moving forward with its ambition to create a smart neighbourhood in Toronto, after addressing a number of "critical issues" in its initial scheme. More about Sidewalk Labs advances plans for Toronto smart city
From a smart forest in Mexico to a Nevada desert city powered by blockchain, a wave of smart cities are being proposed in North America. Here are five examples from the continent that hint at the shape of future neighbourhoods. More about Five smart cities that are being proposed in North America
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans to create a forested smart city near Cancun, Mexico, that is designed to be a "pioneer" of more eco-efficient developments. More about Stefano Boeri unveils Smart Forest City covered in 7.5 million plants for Mexico
Instagram has had a huge impact on the architecture of our cities and perhaps it is time that this changed, says Will Jennings. More about "Should architects design provocatively ugly architecture that does not conform to Instagram's aesthetic conventions?"
As congested and low-lying Jakarta sinks rapidly, Indonesia's government has revealed that the new capital city will be built on the island of Borneo. More about Indonesia's new capital will be located on Borneo
Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to speculative architect Liam Young about how drones will change cities, the topic of Dezeen's short film Elevation, in a talk at the Building Centre in London. More about Watch our talk with Liam Young exploring how drones will change cities
A major plan to reduce air pollution in Madrid may be repealed, because incoming politicians want to bring traffic back into the city. More about Madrid could scrap low-emissions zone despite air quality improvements
Hungary has revealed plans to build a new carbon-neutral greenhouse-filled farming city that will be powered by renewable energy sources. More about Hungary plans €1 billion greenhouse city powered by renewable energy
Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen is collaborating with two Chinese consortiums to design a two-square-mile business district for Shenzhen. More about Henning Larsen to create new centre for Shenzhen
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo is planning to relocate the nation's capital away from Jakarta, the world's fastest-sinking city. More about Indonesia to replace sinking Jakarta with new capital city
All eyes should be on China in the race to develop smart cities, says architect Carlo Ratti, who is co-curating this year's Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen. More about "China is one of the best places for experimenting" with urban technology says Carlo Ratti
Architecture firm BIG has designed a concept for a floating city of 10,000 people that could help populations threatened by extreme weather events and rising sea levels. More about BIG unveils Oceanix City concept for floating villages that can withstand hurricanes