Urban sustainability news

• Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)

• Urban greening in Africa will help to build climate resilience – planners and governments need to work with nature, theconversation.com (Jul 22, 2024)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden

• Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)

• ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)

• Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024)

• ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)

• Paris puts people and bicycles at the heart of ambitious new climate plan, momentummag.com (Nov 29, 2023)
• On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)

• From grey to green: the plan to turn Paris’s zinc rooftops into gardens, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2023)
• Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
• ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
• The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)

• How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
• Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)

• How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
• Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)

• How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
• Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)

• Talking robots, urban bogs and free bikes: inside Europe’s ‘green capital’, Positive News (May 02, 2023)

• Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
• Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows, The Conversation (Jun 27, 2022)
• Imagine we designed our cities on Seven Generations principles - actively stewarding our places for the future, The Daily Alternative (Jun 26, 2022)
• More flowers, fewer cars: the rewilders turning parking spaces into parks, The Guardian (Jun 22, 2022) — Across the UK and Europe, the ‘parklet’ movement is gaining pace, transforming dead spaces where cars used to be into pockets of green
• Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
• Concrete fuels climate change – but there’s a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
• As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers, The Conversation (Mar 15, 2022)

Bauhaus in Africa: the hospital in sweltering Senegal inspired – and funded – by the Albers, Nov 11...theguardian.com

• Colombia's Medellin plants 'green corridors' to beat rising heat, Jul 28...news.trust.org

• Car Free Cities for climate and health, wen.org.uk (Jun 21, 2021) — and why climate justice is a feminist issue.