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Rather than telling a single story, street names preserve several layers of public memory.
Play isn’t just for playgrounds.
Our study revealed that air pollution, lack of green space and areas built primarily from concrete and asphalt were key factors in asthma risk.
Kumasi was once considered among west Africa’s greenest cities.
Focusing on metrics that measure a city’s quality of life could be detrimental to its long-term sustainable development.
In every Australian city, you’re likely to come across a warbling magpie. How do they cope with the onslaught of noise? It turns out, the smarter ones cope better.
If we build homes on a production line, we could make them cheaper, faster and more sustainable.
Living in cities filled with tags may make us feel less safe. But tags don’t mean crime and gangs. The real reasons people tag buildings and bridges are to show off and create community.
Shade, street furniture, streetscapes – they all matter when it comes to making a footpath appealing.
Garden surveys reveal what makes a house a home for Britain’s favourite mammal.
Welcome to an entirely new understanding of the world.
New research has found that low-rise urban environments are more space and carbon efficient than high-rise buildings which have a drastically higher carbon impact.
After ten years of conflict and destruction, what is left of Syria and what hope is there for its people?
Precautions must be taken to realise the full advantage of the benefits associated with trees.
Biologists capture and collar coyotes in urban Los Angeles in order to study the effectiveness of ‘hazing’ as a wildlife management tool.
Graffiti contributes to place-making by creating meaningful or identifiable spaces.
For human planting to support bee diversity, we need to know which flowers the insects want to visit.














