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Beyond cooling, green walls also enhance urban biodiversity. The researchers found that plant-covered facades hosted over 100 ...

Multifamily residential buildings with multiple floors are common in South Korea. These buildings usually have ...

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John Nolen’s blueprint for Venice, Fla., is legendary among urban planners. But what's interesting about Venice as a place, ...

According to the authors of new study published by Arup, city design is playing ... out there to help bring urban temperatures down, from green roofs to different colour road surfaces.

Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality ...

The financial incentives were powerful, and not just for developers; Chinese city governments can get half or even more of their local revenue from selling land rights. Urban design niceties were ...

The city offers a different perspective at various crossroads. (Courtesy of Dionne Co), Author provided (no reuse) Whereas urban studies has existed as an undergraduate program option since the ...

night habitat use: Barred owls' home ranges were significantly larger at night than during the day, indicating different ... areas to harbor greater biodiversity. Implications for urban design ...

Sandra Breux directs the Villes Régions Monde network, a network for the dissemination and popularization of urban studies research, funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et ...

Urban studies is sometimes considered a loosely defined interdisciplinary academic domain, lacking the scientific rigor needed to understand cities. In Canada, urban studies is a little more than ...