Reimagining cities so that they’re actually good: can 15-minute cities really work?
How would you like your city to look? These researchers have some pretty interesting ideas.
Tag: cities
More grass, less asphalt. The best recipe for trees to provide ecosystem services
Study looks into how trees could provide the most benefits in our urban spaces.
Most coastal cities are sinking faster than the sea level is rising and large parts may be submerged by 2030
This is much earlier than we assumed coastal cities would be having issues.
By 2080, climate change will make US cities shift to climates seen today hundreds of miles to the south
There's an app to show you how it will feel.
Cities need to wean off of cars in the future or become endless traffic jams
Traffic jams are objectively the least tasty kind of jam.
Cities are literally starting to sink under their own weight
We knew cities were heavy. But this is a bit much.
These 30 cities are leading the way in climate action — their emissions are already dropping
As countries lack ambition, cities take the lead in reducing their emissions.
Prolonged exposure to Los Angeles Bay air induces dangerous mutations in the brains of rats
Inflammation and cancer-related gene expression was overcharged by exposure to particulate matter in city air.
As cities grow, we must bring the forest into our midst — or pay up
I, for one, welcome our new sylvan neighbors.
Ecotopia 2121 shows what perfectly eco-friendly cities would look like
It also has an 'evil sister' project!
These are the world’s fastest growing cities. They’re all in Africa
Worldwide, more and more people are starting to move from rural areas to urban areas. But nowhere is this as ...
Commuters, traffic, and offices make cities hotter during the week
It's not much, but we're all contributing!
Cosmic dust identified on cities’ rooftops for the first time in history
Space -- a pretty dusty place.
That ATM keyboard you’ve touched earlier is covered in germs from all over town
Tap, tap, microbe map.
Cities grow and thrive much in the same way galaxies do in space
Human social behavior is strikingly governed by laws that describe how the masses congregate or interact one another. Yet, despite ...
Trees can capture 50% of particulate pollution cities
Trees planted along a city street could screen residents from sun and noise - but more importantly, they can also ...
China’s eco-city of the future hints towards its green turnaround
China is the most pollutant country in the world, and as it continues to develop industrially, one can only expect ...
African cities and their ecological impact
No other continent in the world (that's not counting Antarctica) is studied by less ecologists than Africa; that is actually ...
Cities as seen from space, at night
Recently, the NASA observatory published some great images of some cities. For a man looking at those cities at night, ...
