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Gentrification is an immoral process - here’s why violent protest has a role to play in the fight against it.
It can be difficult to imagine that the antiquities in our museums were once a part of vibrant and cosmopolitan cities. Let our expert take you on a tour of three cities to rival today’s global hubs.
For the first time, both major parties have a cities portfolio in their front bench team. With a few more changes, the government could create a structure that will really get to grips with urban issues.
A summit between officials from the US and China on climate change underscores the crucial role cities need to play in meeting national carbon-emission goals.
The evidence is in: cars are a risk to public health, and we need to find alternatives.
Having all your green in one place or not has been taxing urban planners for some time.
Despite big hopes for rebuilding Coventry’s manufacturing heart after the Blitz, the tale of Hillfields became one of sad decline.
A new study has produced puzzling results about how the environment affects men’s and women’s mental health.
The history of a city that went up in flames.
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
There are a number of reasons why Australia’s public transport systems seem shoddy compared to other countries. But these reasons bring into question the validity of such comparisons.
Delta cities in both rich and poor countries face uphill, and potentially costly, battle in containing risk from flooding.
People are increasingly expressing worries over the environmental impact of Olympic Games but for every London, there’s a Sochi – or another Beijing.
A defence of La Défense, and other towering architecture across the globe.
The fact that we have embraced the notion of emailing a tree is no surprise. We have been passionate about trees in cities for a long time.
Mayors from the around the world are at the Vatican to discuss climate change, a global issue that’s proving to be most effectively addressed at the local level.
Rather than just becoming a financial venture, the Eko Atlantic experiment can be carried further at no extra cost to become the hub to transform good governance in Nigeria and West Africa.
With the sea level set to rise up to 1m by 2100, cities around the world must adapt, if they’re to avoid disaster.
Retrofitting old or cheap houses with earthquake protection is often expensive and laborious. What if we could save whole streets at a time?
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