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Feb. 12, 2024 Metropolitan areas with multiple city centers and dispersed green spaces mitigate extreme heat more effectively than those with one dominant city, an analysis by city planning scholars ...
June 20, 2023 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), released just prior to an international climate convention in 2015, explicitly stated that human-caused greenhouse gas ...
Nov. 29, 2023 With the world projected to be highly urbanized by 2050, cities are encouraged to take urgent climate actions to mitigate and adapt to the threats of climate change. As climate change intensifies and ...
May 31, 2023 Municipal climate action plans often identify equity and justice as goals, but engagement with these concepts is mostly rhetorical. A new study details how planners can bridge the gap and challenge ...
Oct. 25, 2022 Researchers argue that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses ...
Feb. 27, 2023 To encourage more active lifestyles, public health agencies recommend mixed-use neighborhoods and 'complete' streets that are friendlier to walkers and bikers, but new research finds that ...
July 6, 2021 Vertical greenery 'planted' on the exterior of buildings may help to buffer people against stress, a new study has ...
Jan. 5, 2022 A new nationwide analysis of 122 plans from 20 US cities found that many plans fail to explicitly define green infrastructure. When they do, they tend to focus on stormwater management, favoring ...
May 9, 2023 A new tool helps show how growing cities can remain carbon ...
June 22, 2021 A recent study revealed that as a city becomes more economically developed, its citizens' happiness becomes more directly related to the area of urban green ...