Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
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What steps is the state government taking to bring Brisbane closer to being a smart city while managing rapid growth? And what differences can city residents expect to see for themselves?
Governing a city like Lagos, with deep-seated socioeconomic inequalities, is not a job for the fainthearted.
Addis may be shaping up to look like the modern city that the government wants, but it is yet to meet the needs of most residents.
Throughout the pandemic we can see that place brands have evolved and those likely to survive are the ones that were already well established to begin with or ones that are more flexible.
City dwellers love their homes but there are different types of love that shape how cities are viewed and how they work.
Cities can learn from past pandemics to see how communities and lifestyles are shaped by outbreaks.
Talk of moving people out of Japan’s cities into rural areas is changing after the recent cyclone hit near Tokyo. Smarter, more connected cities may be a safer way to go.
The government has reportedly set aside 180,000 hectares of land for construction of a new capital in East Kalimantan.
Genetic analysis shows that urban rats prefer to stay near their relatives; however, some of them migrate. Knowing this could help with pest control efforts.
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry insists the air quality is still “moderate with no health effect”. Other data show the city’s air is filthy.
One of Uber’s selling points is that a driver is always available to pick up a rider within minutes. But the drivers who make this possible aren’t being compensated for the time they spend waiting.
With so few public washrooms in our cities, vulnerable people are forced to use café and restaurant washrooms. How do mostly minimum wage café and restaurant workers deal with this?
Urban planning should be long-term and visionary, but the public must have a say, too – that’s where urban rooms come in.
We searched Instagram for city images people associated with happiness. And they consistently included similar features, such as water, nature and heritage buildings.
Urbanisation has been a well-established trend and for some countries will continue to be. But some others experience the opposite, resulting in underused and abandoned infrastructure.
New research released today by the Grattan Institute shows that income growth and unemployment rates are not obviously worse in regional areas.
Cities have always been more than a dense collection of people. They are labs of innovation, hotbeds of crime and inequality, architectural stunners, decaying ruins and everything in between.
Our cities are getting hotter. Luckily, as a built environment, we can actually do something about it.
There is a growing trend of designing modernised replicas of traditional buildings for entertainment and tourism. That’s no way to salvage positive lessons from building traditions.
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University of Manchester
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University of Manchester
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Professor, Accounting and Finance, City, University of London
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Professor, Urban Studies and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Honorary associate, Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor, School of Economic Policy Studies, Rikkyo University
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Chair and Professor of Planning, UCL
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development, University of Leeds
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Architecture, University of Reading
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
