What does a future full of AVs mean for all the spaces reserved for downtown parking?
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Self-driving cars may someday drop off their owners downtown and then leave to find free parking. What would that mean for cities of the future?
Chengkan village, Anhui province: this beautifully-crafted and retreating architecture holds an important place in Chinese heritage.
Xiang Ren.
Two thirds of China’s 900m rural residents are moving to cities. Now, architects are finding ways to preserve their built heritage, before it disappears.
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Looking back at Lviv’s Soviet past, there are clues about how to preserve history for everyone – not just the affluent.
Infecting the City – a performance arts festival in Cape Town.
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From Cape Town to Kisumu and Greater Manchester, cities around the world are seeing the benefits of festivals that celebrate traditions and people.
Istanbul at sunset.
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City rankings have become big business – but this expert thinks it’s best to ignore them.
Enough of this rubbish.
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From Orwell to Trump, the wealthy have a long tradition of stereotyping working-class communities as “dirty” – that has to stop.
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The values of a national park, translated to an urban context, to make life better for local people.
Hampstead Heath, London.
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The UK’s surviving urban commons are precious green spaces, but the laws that protect them are confusing, complicated and in some cases outdated.
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Air conditioning requires energy, and contributes to global warming – here are five ways of cooling which won’t cost the planet.
As bike sharing and other forms of micromobility become more common in global transportation systems, who benefits?
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Combining big data sources about bike-share trips with anonymized data from traditional survey research can best capture who is using bike-share programs.
Machines see better than you think.
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Instead of trying to explain the mystifying mathematics behind how algorithms work, this researcher started looking at how they actually ‘see’ the world we live in.
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Inequality, poverty, austerity, pollution and a faster pace of life all put strains on city-dwellers – but insights from psychology could help create a more supportive urban environment.
Imagining the interior of a living building.
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From building blocks made of fungus to self-healing concrete, architecture is using biotechnology to make buildings come alive.
Grangegorman campus, Technological University Dublin.
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Smart cities are more likely to be defined by quieter upgrades to existing infrastructure and new partnerships that better represent residents.
Imagine.
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Take a fresh look at graffiti: even seemingly simple scribbles can hold political and social significance.
New York has become a ‘city for the rich’ in recent decades, a shift in its real estate market that impacts policy-making, too.
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New York City’s municipal budget relies heavily on the property taxes of extremely high-value real estate. That drives gentrification and distorts local policy in other ways that hurt residents.
Street life, Addis Ababa.
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Development should not be pursued at the expense of the very people who helped to create value and meaning in the city.
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The food system urgently needs to be redesigned if we are to avoid crisis.
The stress of commuting by car can affect workers’ well-being and productivity.
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Workers with long commutes are more likely to become sick. They also receive less net income (after deducting travel costs) and less leisure time.
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Uber’s expansion has become a global epic with regional episodes, but the legal conflict in Argentina has even higher stakes.