Here’s what it learned about making cities more walkable A walkability study uses visual AI and a large pool of on-the-ground images to gauge urban design approaches. This Paris neighborhood ...

This log home, on the market for $399,750, features 12-inch pine logs on an acre just minutes from downtown Des Moines.

A truly public Midan al-Tahrir would have been feared as a threat to regime security, and so over the years the state deployed the physical design of urban space as one of its chief means of ...

When Danish Kurani left his large architecture firm in 2011 to study urban design at Harvard, he began to conceive of a design firm that would tackle almost every social issue imaginable ...

City planners are increasingly recognizing the influence urban design has on community health. Designing Healthy Communities As the prevalence of chronic diseases soars and a shrinking number of ...

About 60 per cent of urban populations will be under 18 years of age by 2030, according to UN Habitat, but attempts to involve young people in the design of their cities remain in their infancy.

The next generation of 21st century urbanists will face complex social, environmental and economic problems in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. The Urban Strategy MS program is a ...

According to the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health (UD/MH), cities are associated with higher rates of most mental health problems compared to rural areas: an almost 40% higher risk of ...

A new planned community is built on the urban design philosophy known as ‘gender mainstreaming.’ Not everyone is convinced. The community of Aspern Seestadt, in northeast Vienna, is a living ...