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Why Calgary, A City Centre For Oil, Fights Cars & Suburban Sprawl
Calgary is like any other Canadian city that grew outwards, not upwards. But led by progressive mayor Naheed…
Why The True Cost Of Suburban Sprawl Will Surprise You, Or Not
Two new studies demonstrate the true costs of sprawl, and attempt to show that if new development was…
Urban Sprawl Reversal In The Future
Did you know crowded cities take up only 2% of the earth’s surface, but generate around 80% of…
LA’s pLAn : From Smog & Sprawl To A Green Sustainable City
Los Angeles is known around the world as the home of Hollywood stars, sunny beaches and a high…
NEOM Shares Its Vision For The Future Of Cities In Venice Exhibition
The historic Abbazia di San Gregorio in Venice will be home to a landmark exhibition entitled, ‘Zero Gravity…
How To Survive A Heatwave
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. With summer still months away, an…
Why Bicycle Accidents Can Be So Devastating
Cycling has become an international sensation. Like most sports, there are peaks and valleys of popularity. As much…
3 Proven Urban Designing Principles That Enhance Road Safety
Today, 55% of the population worldwide lives in cities. According to The World Bank, the number will double by…
The Rise And Significance Of Urban Agriculture
The term ‘agriculture’ might evoke thoughts of a rural landscape. You might think of rolling fields and farmland.…
6 Cities That Rank High When It Comes To Electricity Consumption
For decades now we have become increasingly aware of the levels of our electricity consumption as our lives…
Connected City Streets Mean Healthier Residents And Communities
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world are rediscovering the value of walkable and…
Top Free Things To Do In London
London is renowned the world over as one of the best capital cities to spend a few days…
The Design Of Dissent: How City Public Spaces Can Make Or Break A Civil Protest
Depending on how it’s built, urban spaces have the power to mobilise or impede protests. “Global Protest Wave”…
Megacity Slums Are Incubators Of Disease – But Coronavirus Response Isn’t Helping The Billion People Who Live In Them
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of…
Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Start In And Spread From The Edges Of Cities
Emerging infectious disease has much to do with how and where we live. The ongoing coronavirus is an…
Urban Unrest Propels Global Wave Of Protests
Numerous anti-government protests have paralyzed cities across the globe for months, from La Paz, Bolivia, to Santiago, Chile,…
Cities Alive: Designing For Urban Childhoods
Much of the things we do right now will heavily impact future generations. This goes beyond the political…
Designing For Future Ready Cities
Engineering has always been about building for what lies ahead, creating lasting legacies in the form of extraordinary…
Increasing Wildfires Threaten To Turn Much Of Northern Hemisphere’s Forests From Vital Carbon Stores Into Climate Heaters
In 2014, we travelled to the northern boreal forests of Canada to set experimental fires that would help…
Climate Change: We Can Reclaim Cities From The Car Without Inconveniencing People
Since the 1920s, the car has revolutionised the way people travel; eliminating the constraints of distance while offering…
What Can Bees Teach Us About Building Better Urban Ecosystems?
Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to…
Why Walkable Cities Are Good For The Economy, According To A City Planner
People spend more money when cities are less vehicle-oriented. You’ve probably seen the term “walkability” thrown around in…
Here Are The Real Boundaries Of American Metropolises, Decided By An Algorithm
How is the U.S. actually split geographically? When we think about where we live, usually our ideas start with…
An Intriguing Sci-Fi Vision Of A Megacity
Artist Olalekan Jeyifous creates fantastical, futuristic images of Lagos, Nigeria, to get people thinking about how we live…
Why US Public Transportation Is So Bad — And Why Americans Don’t Care
The US has bad public transit, but you probably already know that. While some cities do have impressive…
Why Cities Rule The World
Cities are the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization — and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place.…
The History Of New York City’s Chinatown
New York City’s Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration…
Working With Nature Can Help Us Build Greener Cities Instead Of Urban Slums
As Australian cities grow and transform, we need to ensure we are not building the slums of the…
Researchers Seek New Ways To Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Cities
Scientists are studying biofilms—complex bacteria societies—in new ways to discover new tools for fighting antibiotic-resistant infections. Physical forces…
America’s Best Food Truck Cities
Over the past few years, food trucks have become ubiquitous in the country’s biggest cities, from Boston to San…
When The Weather Is Extreme, Is Climate Change To Blame?
Dramatic weather events happened these past few weeks in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. There were wildfires…
Mitigating Road Risks In Growing Cities
As cities grow, the pressure on roads and its many users grows with it. According to the UN,…
The ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Guide To Singapore
Clean, green and safe are the adjectives that have long been associated with Singapore. But nowadays, travelers could just…
The Good & The Bad Of Driverless Cars For Cities
The age of driverless cars is rapidly approaching, and no one seems to know what to do about…
Cities Change How Much It Rains & Where Storms Hit
Urban development changes storm patterns and rainfall amounts, two new papers suggest. The research highlights the need for…
The Challenges Of Keeping The Masses Moving Up, Down & Across
Cities worldwide face the problems and possibilities of “volume”: the stacking and moving of people and things within…
NASA’s Building New Tools To Manage Water As Climate Dangers Grow
After an unusually dry winter, a late-season storm finally soaked California in early March, piling up several feet of…
Is It Really 2018? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise
According to scholars throughout history, we actually aren’t living in the year that is printed on our calendars.…
We Need Bigger Cities, But We Also Need Unique Cities
“If you don’t want processed food, why do you want processed cities?” asks architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. Think of…
What Palestinians Can Teach Us About Popular Resistance
The people of Gaza rose up not because of Palestinian political factions, but despite them. The ongoing popular…
The 100 Million City : Is 21st Century Urbanisation Out Of Control?
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an…
How Long Can The World’s ‘Least Sustainable’ City Survive?
Set deep in the Valley of the Sun, the lush and sprawling ‘megapolis’ has a problem – the…
Why Isn’t Australia An Active Travel Mecca?
Australian city planners are seeking ways to make cities better for walking and cycling. “Walkability and cyclability are attractive and “green”…
In Defense Of The Small City
Everyone, including the president, thinks struggling Americans should just move to places like New York. They’re wrong. The…
What Would The Ultimate Child-Friendly City Look Like?
The reality for many urban children is too much time spent indoors playing on smartphones – but a…
Not The End Of The World: The Return Of Dubai’s Ultimate Folly
Underwater bedrooms, ‘Lohan Island’ and snow all year round – a decade after it was scuppered by the…
7 Principles For Building Better Cities
More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected…
How The ‘Queen Of The Curve’ Redefined Our Cities Around The World
From Beirut to Beijing, Zaha Hadid’s distinctive buildings have transformed skylines around the world. Nicknamed the “Queen of…
What Our Cities Need To Do To Be Truly Liveable For All
Urban planners, governments and developers are increasingly interested in making cities “liveable”. But what features contribute to liveability?…