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School of Architecture puts interdisciplinary students to work Professor Steve Lee oversees a crew of nine students laying down sections of a polypropylene hexagonal grid and filling them with pea gravel.

Extinction Rebellion environmental activists march through the City of London in September 2020 to protest institutions that profited from the slave trade or are financing major fossil fuel projects, particularly in the developing countries of the Global South.

An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic research to obtain hard evidence about how people perceive and navigate their urban environments. Fractal and nature-like design demonstrably promotes physical and mental well-being, according to the researchers. They call for an incorporation of this knowledge into urban planning decisions.

The biggest investigation ever undertaken into Eboracum, the Roman city buried beneath York, is set to begin this summer.

With an estimated population of more than 3.7 million people , Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is home to about a quarter of Ethiopia's urban population.

As the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture (SOA) works to shift conventional assumptions about what architecture is and what an architect does to ideas that are more inclusive and equit

In a piece published by The Conversation, Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL) and Dr Irit Katz, from the University of Cambridge, argue that the tools of urban planning are being used to reinforce Israeli dominance of a contested city.

It doesn't have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter - but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of University of Toronto researchers. Physarum polycephalum is a slime mould, a single-celled amoeboid organism that grows as a greenish-yellow system of veins.

Cities emerged as the epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic: roughly 90 per cent of COVID-19 infections worldwide were reported in urban settings.

A new report raises concerns about the proliferation of Airbnb and other short-term letting platforms (STLs) in the city and its effects on local residents.