Tag: Urban planning
Mexico City buried its rivers to prevent disease and unwittingly created...
Elena Delavega, University of Memphis
Mexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to...
Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and...
Bargain-hunting robocars could spell the end for downtown parking – cities...
Corey Harper, Carnegie Mellon University and Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University
Imagine a scene from the near-future: You get dropped off downtown by a driverless...
New York’s new rental protections won’t end the outsize influence of...
Cem S. Kayatekin, IE University
New York has passed sweeping new laws that will close some legal loopholes that allowed the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized...
Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees
Anne Lusk, Harvard University
City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If...
Canada’s most livable city is not Vancouver…it’s Calgary
Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University
Vancouver residents felt a sting to their sense of urban pride when they saw the news that their city had...
Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren’t ready for...
Mark Wilson, Michigan State University
The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man...
EXPLORING NATURE
Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested...
Emma Marcucci, Smithsonian Institution
The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and...
