Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
Jan-Jun 2022[edit | edit source]
- 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]
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]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Urban sustainability news (latest), 2020-2022, 2018-2019, 2017, 2015-2016, 2010-2014
- Urban sustainability
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