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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the United Nations has been continuously urging architects, engineers, and city shapers to put the 2030 agenda and the SDGs into action, and the IPCC report revealed intensifying climate change, ...

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 ...

Minimizing environmental impacts makes good financial sense, write HELD Architecture's Kristina Held and Future of Neighborhood Development's Trent Michels. As urban populations grow and environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

While circular economy is often discussed in relation to the architectural object through the lens of material recycling, design for disassembly, and material passports, the framework is most fully ...