Cities are grappling with how to address the growing impacts of climate change. Two panels at Climate Week NYC took a broad view of what those impacts are and urged cities to abandon their siloed mindset about
The ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’ (‘My house, My life’) social housing policy launched in Brazil in 2009 was hugely ambitious, aiming to provide social housing for an estimated 7m people then living in sub-optimal conditions,
While others have called for a more humane approach to cities over the years, arguably no one has had as much influence on shaping urban spaces and shifting the way we think about urban design
Crowded jails have emerged as a hotbed of COVID-19 with up to 40% of inmates in Los Angeles County infected by late May. To try to stop the spread, officials sharply reduced jail populations, releasing roughly 5,000
“There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now,” tweeted Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, on March 22nd. In the three weeks since New
With more than 2 million confirmed cases, India now has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world. A hasty lockdown, followed by a disorderly reopening, failed to slow the pandemic but has thrown
Britain’s squeezed property market and the John Lewis Partnership’s motto of never being “knowingly undersold” are not comfortable bedfellows. Democratized controversially by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s sale of publicly-owned council homes to their residents in the 1980s, housing