Electric cars are hailed as the best way to cut transport emissions, but it’s an illusion to think we can reduce our environmental impact without changing the way we design and move about in cities.
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When it comes to ring roads, Birmingham has a poor track record. Can the city’s new transport plan buck that trend and benefit both its inhabitants and the environment?
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
In cities across Europe, 62% of the population doesn’t have access to the amount of nature the World Health Organisation recommends.
Flooding constitutes a threat to Nigeria achieving the global sustainable development goals.
Imagining new kinds of places to live is an American tradition.
Electric vehicles are poised to take over our roads: so how do we make sure this change doesn’t exacerbate social and energy inequality?
Images of water gushing into subway stations filled social media following heavy rain in New York City. Solutions are at hand – but it takes money and political will, an expert explains.
The increasing prevalence of white LED streetlamps spells worrying population declines for insects like moths.
Following the deadly collapse of a condo high-rise in Florida, a historian of this kind of housing explains how it offers a sense of community that many people seek.
Reducing transport inequality and improving walkability in Indigenous communities are necessary to help close the health and social gap.
The way we build our cities is adversely affecting our health, and, in particular, our hearts. Thinking of urban planners as health professionals could change that
The current neighbourhood planning scheme can increase housebuilding and give local people a say – so why is the government ignoring it?
The pandemic has accelerated some urban trends and reversed others, while focusing attention on the vulnerabilities of cities. The old planning certainties will have to be revisited.
How do migrants to the UK explore and experience its natural environment – and how does it connect them to their roots?
When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking, space was freed up for public transit and people.
James Packer’s Barangaroo tower has not just changed Sydney’s skyline. It has changed the whole planning system.
From discriminatory land-use policies to evictions and demolitions, urban planning has long been weaponised against the Palestinian people
This is a transcript of episode 16 of The Conversation Weekly podcast The racial hunger gap in American cities and what do about it. In this episode, we look at some of the reasons behind racial disparities…
Cities around the world are reducing traffic speeds and improving access to local services and activities by public transport, cycling and walking. They are now reaping the many ‘slow city’ benefits.
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