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Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
A group of academics look at the global evidence to examine the potential impact of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia and the US.
Too much light and noise at night in cities makes us sleep less and, as a consequence, worsens our health. Here are some of the measures that local authorities should take to remedy this problem.
The psychology of disagreement offers insight into why there is such a strong polarisation in opinions surrounding London’s expanded Ulez.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
Developers have overbuilt office and commercial space in US cities for decades. Now, in the wake of pandemic shutdowns, many downtowns face hard choices about the future.
As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.
People living in rural areas perceive the threat of climate change to be lower than people in cities.
The famous French anthropologist, world-renowned for his theory of non-places and his analyses of the “overmodern” city, died during the summer.
Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
The city of Accra has no plan to tackle pedestrians’ behaviour.
US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.
If we build homes on a production line, we could make them cheaper, faster and more sustainable.
What is so special about Crawford Lake? And what can it teach us about the urban spaces we live in?
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Illinois passed the latest law requiring new apartment buildings to be wired for EV chargers. Now apartment communities are figuring out the best ways to make shared charging work for everyone.
Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
And what about the old water-bottles-on-the grass trick? Does that actually work?
African cities contribute the least to but bear the highest impact of climate change in terms of frequency and severity of weather events.
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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