People want easy access to green spaces and shops and they don’t want to travel more than 20 minutes to get there – but women feel a lot less comfortable after dark.
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Changing work habits and shifting environmental priorities demand new models of urban redevelopment. Architectural ‘exaptation’ uses the past to reimagine the future.
Canada’s cities must be planned around resident
health and well-being, our research reveals the key barriers to developing truly healthy cities.
Conspiracy theories about urban planning are born of a national context in which public transport provision is failing
The idea of the 15-minute city has become popular globally. But this approach relies on ableist assumptions and doesn’t reflect inclusive urban design.
A big reason the idea is gaining momentum globally is that the benefits for the health of individuals, communities and the environment are clear and almost immediate.
Paying for the true cost of consumption could help grow the economy.
It’s about designing cities that prioritise people not cars.
A comparison of 42 urban areas in New Zealand with 500 towns and cities in the US shows how much better local urban design has to be if we’re serious about reducing reliance on cars.
Hosting the Games has seem Birmingham dotted with new infrastructure and amenities. But the city’s pioneering transformation began over a 100 years ago.
Residents across the world have seen how the pandemic has ushered in changes – shall and big – to the way their cities look and function.
When it comes to ring roads, Birmingham has a poor track record. Can the city’s new transport plan buck that trend and benefit both its inhabitants and the environment?
The pandemic could be a boon to car use, but it would be a mistake for governments to let that happen. There’s a golden opportunity to push towards a zero-carbon transportation system.
Top contributors
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Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne and, University of Leeds
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Senior Researcher in Architecture & Urban Design
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Research Fellow, Department of Transport Planning, Technical University of Dortmund
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Researcher in Sustainable Transportation, Carleton University
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Lecturer in Urban Data Science and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
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Director of Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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Reader in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
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Research Associate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto