Urban green spaces, which include parks, community gardens and forested enclaves within cities, are increasingly recognised as vital contributors to mental health. As urbanisation intensifies, these ...

Azza Kamal wears many hats — besides teaching sustainable planning and urban design in CU Boulder’s Environmental Design (ENVD) department, she is an urbanist, policy researcher, and licensed ...

Assistant Research Professor. Environmental and Occupational Health, Urban Health Collaborative. Latin America is the second-largest urbanized region in the world, with over 80% of the population ...

If designed in certain ways, parks in urban areas can benefit people and nature. Credit: Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Research shows that parks are crucial ...

A new study suggests that city dwellers who have more exposure to urban green spaces require fewer mental health services. A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health suggests ...

Cities are always under scrutiny. New ideas and theories flow into the intellectual realm of thinkers trying to improve conditions or trying to make a name for themselves. Many of these assertions get ...

A study published in the journal PNAS claims that urban green space has only a moderate effect on air pollution control and that street-level vegetation can actually increase air pollution by ...

Large-scale infrastructure projects often aim to connect distant locations within urban areas, facilitating quicker transportation, logistics, and commercial activities along their routes. However, ...

Thami Croeser receives funding from the Ian Potter Foundation. Holly Kirk receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Ian Potter Foundation. Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a ...

Being near and having more exposure to urban green space and blue (water) space is linked to lower odds of having coronary artery calcification in middle age, which is an early marker of ...

The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a new study conducted as part of a major ...