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Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood.

Scientists Discover How to Calculate Citywide Cooling Effects of Urban Trees

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

The rankings of accessibility. The left plot describes the rankings of the average Proximity Time of the cities, both by bike and on foot, while the right one describes the percentages of people in a 15-minute city © Sony Computer Science Laboratories - Rome

Time Isn’t Everything: Rethinking the 15-Minute City

Categories Social Sciences

Aruni Bhatnagar, director of the University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, standing amid some of the 8,000 trees and shrubs planted for the project.

Urban Tree Planting Linked to Reduced Inflammation in Residents

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health

Suburban traffic

Study Finds Bicycle Rolling-Stop Laws Don’t Compromise Safety for Riders or Motorists

Categories Health, Social Sciences

A recent workshop attendee, Yuxuan Zhao, created a new-look Lancaster South using ‘Cities: Skylines’. Buildings and models can be imported into the game to create realistic landscapes and inform planning.

Video Game Tech Could Revolutionize Urban Planning, Say Researchers

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

Scene of a pond with birds and other wildlife

The more diverse nature, the better it is for mental health

Categories Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans

Gender-based heat map images show where men tend to look and where women tend to look on a path at night. Women focused significantly more on potential safety hazards — the periphery of the images — while men looked directly at focal points or their intended destination

Women more cautious when walking at night

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

Yong Suk Lee

AI can alert urban planners and policymakers to cities’ decay

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

Mesamerican ruins. Image courtesy of University of Houston.

Mesoamerica a model for modern metropolises

Categories Social Sciences

This is what The Line, Saudi Arabia's superlative construction project, is supposed to look like.

Why Saudi Arabia’s “The Line” isn’t a revolution in urban living

Categories Social Sciences

A red-tailed hawk in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. A UCLA-led study concluded that there would be dramatic loss of diversity among bird species unless there are practical plans to preserve it.

What does it take to thrive in cities … if you’re a bird?

Categories Life & Non-humans

Tree canopy

A mixture of trees purifies urban air best

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

Tree growing on city street

More trees can reduce city deaths

Categories Health, Social Sciences

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