Stay updated with the latest global news on Urban sustainability, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts aimed at eco-friendly living and sustainable communities thriving within planetary boundaries.
Stay updated with the latest global news on Urban sustainability, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts aimed at eco-friendly living and sustainable communities thriving within planetary boundaries.
The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.” ‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2026) Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis Shift Embassy in Rotterdam is “a public park that blends art with ecology” [Positive.News], Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2026) What the majority world can teach the rest of us about low-cost, high-impact systems of “coolth” [John Thackera], Daily Alternative (Jul 23, 2026) How Paris transformed 300 school streets: a step-by-step guide [Cities4Children], Daily Alternative (Jun 29, 2026) We Don’t Have a Housing Crisis. We Have Something Worse, digbyhall.substack.com (Jun 28, 2026) — The way we’re solving the housing crisis will become our future cities crisis, Digby Hall Adapting to the heat: four ideas from European cities, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — From checking on older neighbours to greening spaces, some cities are stepping up efforts to keep people safe How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026) How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets, theguardian.com (Apr 05, 2026) India shows how urban forests can help cool cities – as long as planners understand what nature and people need, theconversation.com (Jan 14, 2026) 100 US cities have now abolished parking mandates, freeing up space for housing, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 19, 2025) Chicago eases parking mandates to spur affordable housing development, smartcitiesdive.com (Sep 05, 2025) As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 05, 2025) Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 30, 2025) Medellín’s sublime return to nature – in pictures, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2025) How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 05, 2025) Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?, carbonbrief.org (Jun 03, 2025) Kenya’s third-largest city reimagines urban living, theprogressplaybook.com (May 18, 2025) How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025) Inside Washington’s groundbreaking parking reforms, theprogressplaybook.com (May 05, 2025) Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze, BBC Future (Apr 27, 2025) How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities, theconversation.com (Apr 24, 2025) ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025) Kathmandu, Nepal's liquid landscape: Hiti Pranali water heritage, globalvoices.org (Apr 13, 2025) Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free, bloomberg.com (Mar 24, 2025) ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025) Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025) Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025) ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024) From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024) 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) 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) How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (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
Car Free Cities for climate and health, wen.org.uk (Jun 21, 2021) — and why climate justice is a feminist issue.Blogs
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