In its latest research note, grass roots development advocacy group YIMBY Melbourne has questioned claims by the planning ...

Unchecked urban development, energy poverty, and poor governance are creating dangerous microclimates for its most vulnerable citizens.

Urban explorers have returned to a town to look inside a former independent school before it is converted into flats and a medical centre.

Towers should be the built embodiment of Gulf cities' ambitions and values, both on the skyline and at street level, writes ...

Explore how smart cities are integrating digital, social, and environmental values to meet the World Bank's 2050 urban ...

Across India, the scenes have become painfully familiar. Cars floating like paper boats, families wading through waist-deep ...

Bengaluru's urban growth leads to high temperatures, prompting policy recommendations to mitigate urban heat islands and ...

Cities can increase green cover and early warning systems to retrofitting infrastructure with heat-tolerant materials, but long-term resilience demands political will.

Australians have recoiled from plans to turn a plot of land on the Sunshine Coast into a complex of modest townhouses, described as “terrace homes” by the developer, and as “prison cells” by critics ...

Can cities continue to grow without destroying Earth? A new paper from ICTA-UAB, Spain, offers insight into this complex ...

While housing advocates applauded the State Legislature’s new CEQA reforms, environmental activists said it will degrade environmental quality.

Urbanization has increased the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. This study uses local climate zones (LCZ) and urban built environment characteristics (UBECs) to explore the factors influencing ...