Weekly Filet #104: City of 7 Billion. And more.
This week's top recommendation
A highly fascinating project: Two Yale architects aim to model a city of 7 billion (yes, the entire world's population). The idea is to study and plan for an increasingly urbanised planet by creating an extreme. The best part: The model («think of a super-enhanced Google Earth») will be open-source.
→ What If the Entire World Lived in 1 City? (The Atlantic)
Further recommendations
Love these images. So simple, yet so...ghostly.
→ Ghostly Hands and Feet (Colossal)
The Guardian has investigated the story behind the 110 dead bodies that washed up in a Syrian river bed seven weeks ago. A harrowing report.
→ Syria: the story behind one of the most shocking images of the war (The Guardian)
The badass photographers diary: I'm standing right next to a volcano, there's fire, there's lava, there are lightnings. Well, let's take some pictures.
→ Terrifying Volcanic Lightning (Colossal)
Portrait of a struggling Japanese generation.
→ Youth of the ice age (FT Magazine)