What are 15-Minute Cities?
What if you could get from home to your job to the grocery store to the park, all in 15 minutes?
What if you could get from home to your job to the grocery store to the park, all in 15 minutes?
Barry Siegel’s “Dreamers and Schemers” features William May Garland who propelled LA’s early development into a major metropolis through his ‘irresistible life force’ of salesmanship.
The 99% Invisible City explains the small mysteries in our everyday urban geography.
City Guesser is an online geography game that uses audio and visual street video to provide hints about where in the world the city is located.
The Degree of Urbanization model classifies urban, semi-urban, and rural areas based on data from open satellite imagery and GIS data.
As people shelter-in-place during the coronavirus outbreak, animals come out to roam and skies are clearer in some places.
Researchers from the University of Sheffield mapped out urban spaces that could be used to grow fruits and vegetables in Sheffield, a city in England.
In an effort to lower noise levels, the Mumbai Police have set up noise meters at select traffic signals around the city called “Punishing Signals”.
A study from the US Forest Service has found that, nationally, tree cover is declining at a rate of 175,000 acres per year which is the equivalent of about 36 million trees lost each year.
Researchers have tested honey from six Vancouver neighborhoods from varying districts (urban, industrial, residential and agricultural) for levels of lead, copper, zinc, and other pollutants.
New methods have also been created to measure inequality to housing and health so that they can be empirically demonstrated
The urban sprawl concept caused researchers to dive into figuring out what city in the world is the biggest based on the size of its urban sprawl.
The blossoming field of urban technologies will shape how the future looks, as spaces around the world become increasingly urbanized.