After a century of encouraging Americans to light out for the open spaces of suburbia, the nation’s development gurus have now decided that what we really need are more crowds. Not just more people, ...

In debates about urban density we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough, about too many people in a neighbourhood or too few, about streets and buildings being ...

Deepti Adlakha receives funding from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, the Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Government ...

A new study suggests that denser places, assumed by many to be more conducive to the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, are not linked to higher infection rates. In fact, the study showed ...

Rebecca Nesbit and Laurie E. Paarlberg argue that volunteering cannot be a one-size-fits-all solution, as the experiences of ...

House sparrows (Passer domesticus) have adapted to urban environments, which are changing and growing faster than ever before. A range of both biotic and abiotic factors – including habitat ...

If we want to increase the supply of homes for local people, we need to build up, says Alana Kobayashi Pakkala, CEO of Kobayashi Group, a local, family-owned development company. “I think it’s ...

Like so many things in our world today, urban density has become politicized, reduced to sound bites in an oversimplified reach to rush to unsubstantiated conclusions. One narrative making the rounds ...

We constantly hear about the problems with density: tiny shoeboxes in the sky, looming towers and their shadows, traffic congestion, and overcrowding. But despite popular discourse, denser living can ...

Cities are a boon for public health—even now. As public-health experts have known for decades, people who live in a city are likely to walk and bike more often, and they live closer to community ...