Sustainability
Let’s embrace and empower the collective skill in producing beautiful and well-adapted habitat, which is evident throughout human history.
In Mendoza, Argentina, ancient acequias provide a green design element that transforms the city and has passed the test of time.
A CNU Legacy Project explores the potential of an underutilized creek corridor that runs through more than dozen neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky.
Reining in sprawl is still the most important first step in transitioning to a more benign kind of settlement, and more responsible planning. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is only one of many benefits—but it is a significant one.
A city's density of habitation is a powerful tool to make a city more efficient. Here's how the most innovative cities are using it to fight climate change.
How urbanism could help to solve problems like the Paradise disaster.
Pattern retrofit is a necessary step to reforming dysfunctional metropolises impacted by global capital. This is part 1 of a series.
As cities around the world are enveloped in sprawl, its health and sustainability problems are going global.
After taking a back seat to urban revival for a decade or more, American suburbs are once again in the driver's seat of growth. Can they be built sustainably?
Rising sea levels will create massive displacement in coming generations—here's a number of ways that people and communities will transition from low-lying to higher locations and conditions.
Thanks to the Australian-American Fulbright Commission and UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign, fundamental relationships at the heart of urban public health and livability are under scrutiny in tropical Australia.
Here are some ideas on telling the story of why walkable urbanism matters—from your perspective to a particular audience.