The debate over new urban density rules is further dividing an already divided city. The challenge for Auckland is stop social and spatial fragmentation being baked into its character forever.
Women often face increased risk when using public transport, especially alone.
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How we design our cities can make it harder to be healthy. City planners are now able to quantify the different elements that are affecting our health and well-being.
99% of people below the floors where the planes struck the twin towers evacuated successfully, although their journey was fraught with danger. Their stories have influenced today’s skyscraper designs.
The research, focused on the Jordan Springs estate in Western Sydney, found houses were built close together and made from materials which exacerbate hot weather.
Cookie-cutter urban designs don’t do justice to cities’ natural biodiversity.
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Smart street furniture can do a lot of things at once. Some of these functions offer the public clear benefits, but the data collection and surveillance capabilities raise a number of concerns.
Surface parking in downtown San Jose, California.
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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.
Making inclusivity a visible and a structural component of urban planning is crucial.
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The gaybourhood gave LGBTQ+ communities the space they urgently needed to simply be themselves. But our cities should be built in such a way that everyone feels at home
The utopian 20th-century model of a modern city – one that has been replicated around the world – is being exposed as unsuitable for adapting to the pace of change in the 21st century.
Roadsides have long been reserved for parking cars, but the pandemic led to many experiments with other ways of using scarce and valuable public space. We can put it to better and more flexible uses.
NSW is developing a comprehensive new planning policy with the goal of creating healthy places. A new study finds those people who work as placemakers want these goals embedded in laws and budgets.
In 2014, scientists studying the soil in Central Park were surprised at the vibrancy of the microbial life they discovered.
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