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How Cities Can Unlock the Potential of Laneway Housing
Untapped potential, this article and it's research focuses on locating eligible lots and how to unlock and maximize their potential.
Future Cities: New Challenges Mean we Need to Reimagine the Look of Urban Landscapes
Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes – it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat solution to society’s problems.
Parks Matter More Than Ever During a Time of Sickness – Something Frederick Law Olmsted Understood in the 19th Century
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans’ relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct effects on people’s daily lives is reduced access to public parks.
Digital Media is Changing the Face of Buildings, and Urban Policy Needs to Change With Them
Architecture has opportunities that it never had before, and urban policy needs to keep up with these developments.
Is Your City Making you Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address the Obesity Epidemic
Researchers call cities that promote sedentary lifestyles and poor diet obesogenic. As a researcher focusing on urban issues, I am encouraged to see city planners paying increasing attention to helping residents lead healthy lifestyles.
Our changing views of the city: A new urban celebration
The orthodoxy of urbanity, as something to celebrate, represents a 180 degree about-face from the way those charged with the city’s care and maintenance viewed cities a mere generation ago.
Do You Get Motion Sickness When Working in a Skyscraper?
Few have considered how being in a skyscraper can cause a form of motion sickness as well, however recent reports confirm its plausibility.