Last Updated on September 5, 2025 by Matt Staff As 1899 unfolded, the world teetered on the threshold of a new century. There was one foot stuck ...

Throughout human history, cities have been abandoned or reclaimed by nature. Sometimes people rediscover these cities using technology or by a stroke of luck. These five cities, buried under rock, ice ...

Hermosa, South Dakota, 1927.George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be ...

A Reddit post comparing two photos of the same Kansas City street, taken 129 years apart, shows what America lost when it built highways through its cities. The post, which gained traction on Reddit's ...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: The Urban Century -- Hunter's Point -- Life in the Urban Century -- Designing the Cities of the Future -- This ...