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Religious organisations and community initiatives succeed where disoriented liberal politicians fail.
Apartment layouts at Ritter Strasse 50, initiated by ifau and Jesko Fezer with Heide and Von Beckerath, are highly individualised.
Andrea Kroth
Citizens can switch from being consumers to pioneers who drive new designs for living. The German baugruppe model is a leading example.
Officer Woods’ competition entry shows how the wasted spaces of suburban road verges and front yards could be put to much better uses.
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The front yards, footpaths and verges of Australian suburbs are spaces overdue for reinvention.
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Cities are realising that having great nightlife is not just about entertainment – it also means a 24-hour economy.
Some intangible elements of a city, such as people’s attachments to the ‘vibe’ of a place, are critical to understanding that city.
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Melbourne ranks as the World’s Most Liveable City. But does that tell us what people really love? Lovability is a new approach to city metrics.
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A PhD candidate retells the moving stories of Syrian women, as they try to find a place in their new neighbourhoods.
Water use for transport is significant.
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Travelling to work can require as much water as you use at home.
Lygon Street, Brunswick East, Melbourne, 1956.
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From the 1960s, the backlash against inner-suburban clearances was led by the ‘trendies’.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signs legislation lowering the default speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour, Oct. 27, 2014.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have painted starkly different views of U.S. cities during the campaign. Will the next president deliver the funding and political support mayors are seeking?
More than cluster of people and buildings, urbanity is a concentration of encounters and connections.
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We’re still in the early days of understanding how cities work. But we do know that creative, healthy and productive cities have certain things in common – and it’s all to do with their ‘urban DMA’.
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Crime is declining, but people are getting more and more defensive about their homes.
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Airbnb may have faced eviction in New York, but it has a great relationship with the authorities in most other cities around the world.
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Modern life is stressful – here’s how to make your local neighbourhood a haven.
Quito lights up for Habitat III.
Alexei Trundle
Nation states, UN bodies and civil society gathered in Quito for Habitat III to adopt the New Urban Agenda. So how will the UN’s new global urban roadmap transform our cities over the next 20 years?
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As many as 30,000 delegates gathered to decide the future of cities for the next 20 years – here’s how it played out.
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Over the next 20 years, one global strategy will help to shape our cities. Here’s what it says about women.
Cities like Dhaka are internally diverse, even contradictory. Such variation extends to the types of economic activity that take place in them.
Reuters/Andrew Biraj
As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.
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Bringing a broader, more diverse nightlife to cities will be key to ensuring they thrive in the 21st century.
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A podcast on darkness: from why it makes us scared, to what kind of nightlife can thrive in the modern city and an update on the hunt for dark matter.
In the unregulated Australian rental housing market, rental leases are almost always short term.
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The need for new housing solutions for these low-income groups is clearly a pressing requirement.