- 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)
2021[edit | edit source]
Bauhaus in Africa: the hospital in sweltering Senegal inspired – and funded – by the Albers, Nov 11 [1]
Colombia's Medellin plants 'green corridors' to beat rising heat, Jul 28 [2]
- Car Free Cities for climate and health, wen.org.uk (Jun 21, 2021) — and why climate justice is a feminist issue.
2020[edit | edit source]
Waltham Forest building a 15-minute borough, Dec 21 [3]
It looks like the pandemic is helping us to move our business into the streets - and killing the urban car along the way, Oct 15 [4]
Barcelona's car-free 'superblocks' could save hundreds of lives, Sep 10 [5]
Bologna pioneers a model of municipal housing cooperative, May 28 [6] ...Italy news
Bristol reveals plans to pedestrianise historic centre in Covid-19 revamp, May 21 [7]
The fifteen-minute city: imagine being only that far away from any major amenity. Paris is going there, Mar 4 [8]
'The streets are more alive': Ghent readers on a car-free city centre, Jan 20 [9]
The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones, Jan 15 [10]
2019[edit | edit source]
Barcelona to open southern Europe's biggest low-emissions zone, Dec 31 [11]
Marmalade Lane: the car-free, triple-glazed, 42-house oasis, May 8 [12] ...Cambridgeshire
A Modest Proposal to Eliminate 11,000 Urban Parking Spots, Mar 29 [13] ...Amsterdam
Oslo Is (Almost) Car-Free -- And Likes It That Way, Mar 5 [14] ...Norway
Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town, Jan 9 [15] Urban sustainability UK news
Happy space, Jan [16]
2018[edit | edit source]
Timpson says a locally-driven approach needed to rejuvenate high streets. Retail industry experts have called for a community-focused approach to tackling the challenges facing high streets and town centres. Dec 20 [17] ...Urban sustainability UK news
The city turning streets into gardens, Nov 22 [18] ...Paris
How renters are becoming co-owners and co-developers, Nov 8 [19] ...US news
Create Streets say: We don't want NIMBYs, but YIMBYs and BIMBYs (Y for "Yes", B for "Beautiful"), Oct 15 [20]
A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris, Oct 10 [21]
- 'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars, The Guardian (Sep 18, 2018) — In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans
Norway builds world's tallest timber tower, and it's both environmentally friendly and fire resistant, Sep 5 [22]
This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22 [23] ...Oxfordshire
Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’, Apr 29 [24]
Why 'urban villages' are on the rise around the world, Feb 1 [25]
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