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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Kim Dovey, The University of Melbourne et Elek Pafka, The University of Melbourne
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’.
Alexei Trundle, The University of Melbourne; André Stephan, The University of Melbourne; Hayley Henderson, The University of Melbourne; Hesam Kamalipour, The University of Melbourne et Melanie Lowe, The University of Melbourne
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?
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.
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In a busy city like London, green space is a valuable commodity.
Upper Coomera is one of those fast-growing fringe suburbs that are hotter because of tightly packed housing with less greenery.
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Recently published research has found that the concentration of poorer people in hotter places is a real problem for cities’ capacity to cope with climate change.