Urbanization presents opportunities for economic growth, enhanced living standards, and increased cultural diversity. Historical data underscores this trend: since 1950, the world’s urban population ...

Rossbach is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN-Habitat Today, more than half the world’s population lives in cities—a figure expected to grow by 2.4 billion by ...

Urban green spaces (UGS) play a crucial role in climate regulation, biodiversity and livability, yet new research from the ...

According to Live Kindly, sustainable architecture is “any architecture that attempts to limit the negative environmental impact of building construction and operation.” There are a few formal ...

The move toward more sustainable, inclusive and safer cities isn’t just better for the environment. These spaces contribute to a higher quality of life, foster community, encourage collaboration, and ...

Azza Kamal wears many hats — besides teaching sustainable planning and urban design in CU Boulder’s Environmental Design (ENVD) department, she is an urbanist, policy researcher, and licensed ...

Social fragmentation and economic divides have fractured the fabric of urban environments. In this context, ecovillages emerge as influential remedies to societal and ecological crises, microcosms ...

The “Equitism Tower” is the symbol of City of Telosa What happens when the fate of a new city is handed to its inhabitants? This is the overarching concept behind City of Telosa, a project from Danish ...

The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing ...

URBAN conservation and sustainable urban design are integral to disaster risk reduction management, especially in the Philippines, where many heritage towns are highly vulnerable to natural calamities ...