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io9 - Aug 28, 2008
A 1500-year-old Amazonian city, full of artificial lakes, large public plazas, and agricultural regions (including fish farms), is being excavated and mapped for the first time in modern memory. Until recently, the …
Also tagged: history, science, amazon, brazil, kuikoro, mega anthropology, upper xingu
io9 - Aug 2, 2008
If you're a fan of the Bioshock game, where a subterranean Utopian society goes terribly wrong, you'll be weirdly drawn to the futurist gang behind real-life think tank The Venus Project. They've got a whole plan for …
Also tagged: architecture, future, futurism, imaginary urbanism, venus project
io9 - Mar 10, 2008
The so-called Freedom Ship, a floating city of thousands, is an idea that has been tossed around for a while. Now the Freedom Ship company has a new set of designs for the floating urban space, which looks sort of like …
io9 - Mar 4, 2008
A common French weed known as Crepis sancta underwent a form of superaccelerated evolution to cope with the difficulties of spreading their seeds in cities. Scientists studying C. sancta discovered that over a period …