A car fails to yield as a family attempts to cross a road in Long Beach, Calif.
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A traffic engineer argues that, contrary to his profession’s view, ‘human error’ is not the main cause of deaths in car crashes in the US.
A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks.
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The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
Rooftop construction at a high-rise building undergoing conversion to apartments in Manhattan’s financial district in New York City, April 11, 2023.
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Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly and is more sustainable and economical than new construction.
Police drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024.
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Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
New Zealand tends to focus on big infrastructural projects such as tunnels or light rail to change cities. But there are cheaper ways to add public spaces to urban design.
‘Meditation,’ by Lei Yixin, near the picnic pavilion in Lake Phalen Regional Park.
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Public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a huge shift to online work, drastically affecting office space and business districts. However, data shows that this may be changing.
Water runs into a storm drain in a Los Angeles alley on Aug. 19, 2023, during Tropical Storm Hilary.
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US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Policymakers can find themselves caught between two conflicting economic goals: growth and equity.
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The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s colossal Line project from a 170 km long linear city to only 2.4 km is a clear warning to the viability of other urban mega-projects in a warming world.
The men’s dormitory at a new center for asylum-seekers in Portland, Maine.
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People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
The strategy seems to offer the best of both worlds – live in a place you can’t afford to buy while getting a foot on the property ladder elsewhere. But it’s not a panacea for our housing market woes.
Philadelphia is more unsafe than it “should” be, based on its population.
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African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
Simon Fraser University students compile survey packages for a community housing resident survey in North Vancouver in November 2023.
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Before we draw conclusions about the implications of social isolation, we should check our expectations of how, when and why neighbouring does or does not happen.