Philadelphia teens participate in a ‘Die in’ to draw attention to gun violence on April 14, 2022.
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Mass shootings account for only about 3% of gun homicides in the U.S.
A large roundabout in China.
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Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans are allowed in the city, but not supervised injection sites.
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A group of academics look at the global evidence to examine the potential impact of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia and the US.
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Too much light and noise at night in cities makes us sleep less and, as a consequence, worsens our health. Here are some of the measures that local authorities should take to remedy this problem.
The expansion of London’s Ulez has caused acrimonious controversy.
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The psychology of disagreement offers insight into why there is such a strong polarisation in opinions surrounding London’s expanded Ulez.
Crews clear lots of destroyed homes in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., in February 2022, four months after Hurricane Ian.
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A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
A sign advertises retail spaces for lease at Union Square in San Francisco on June 21, 2023.
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Developers have overbuilt office and commercial space in US cities for decades. Now, in the wake of pandemic shutdowns, many downtowns face hard choices about the future.
As July temperatures soared to triple digits, hundreds of homeless people lived on the street outside Phoenix’s largest shelter.
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As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.
People’s perceptions of the threat of climate change vary according to where they live.
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People living in rural areas perceive the threat of climate change to be lower than people in cities.
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The famous French anthropologist, world-renowned for his theory of non-places and his analyses of the “overmodern” city, died during the summer.
In ‘Scream 6,’ interior private spaces like apartments offer only the illusion of safety.
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Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
Walking is a popular mode of transportation in Ghana.
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The city of Accra has no plan to tackle pedestrians’ behaviour.
Parking consumes 20% or more of prime locations in many U.S. downtowns.
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US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.
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If we build homes on a production line, we could make them cheaper, faster and more sustainable.
Crawford Lake, in Milton, Ont., seen from above.
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What is so special about Crawford Lake? And what can it teach us about the urban spaces we live in?
A minibus driver and an agbero exchange blows at Ojota, Lagos.
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A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Charging at home is more convenient for apartment dwellers, too.
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Illinois passed the latest law requiring new apartment buildings to be wired for EV chargers. Now apartment communities are figuring out the best ways to make shared charging work for everyone.
Dharavi slum in India. Billions of people live in terrible conditions in the world’s cities.
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Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
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And what about the old water-bottles-on-the grass trick? Does that actually work?
Most mayors and managers of African cities know too well that climate change is real.
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African cities contribute the least to but bear the highest impact of climate change in terms of frequency and severity of weather events.