architecture Can there be a mile-high skyscraper? David Pescovitz

skyscrapers Manhattan's skyline in 2020 Rob Beschizza

photography Claustrophobic overhead shots of Hong Kong residential buildings Andrea James

video Daredevil couple films 360-degree video atop Millennium Tower in Dubai Andrea James

fires Incredible timelapse of Dubai skyscraper in flames Mark Frauenfelder

History Watch this impressive c.1929 footage of construction workers atop NYC's Chrysler Building David Pescovitz

late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow

science fiction William Gibson profiled in The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

china Hong Kong protests level up in countermeasures, tactics, art and deadly seriousness Cory Doctorow

climate change NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city's carbon footprint Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

urban theory New York's luxury real-estate market is crashing Cory Doctorow

Gadgets This app helps you build your dream home from the ground up Boing Boing's Shop

surveillance London demonstrates the stupid, janky future of Smart Cities Cory Doctorow

jazz-age memes The stowaway craze of the 1920s Clive Thompson

Business Disney buys Fox in all-stock deal, making Rupert Murdoch the largest shareholder in the company Cory Doctorow

french spiderman Watch: Man scales 29-story hotel with bare hands, no safety harness Carla Sinclair

politics Review: Wolfen (1981) Rob Beschizza