How can we promote more sustainable behavior through experiences that shape how we consume, share, move, work, and live within our communities.
North America’s car-oriented post-war suburbs are facing challenges they were never designed for.
San Francisco became the first city in the United States where 100 percent of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park.
Bike Bus (supervised group bike rides to school) rapidly creates visible demand for active travel and delivers immediate health and social benefits.
Advocate for deeper human–nature connections in cities, and protect and design blue-green infrastructure that supports both climate resilience and public health.
Advocate for deeper human–nature connections in cities, and protect and design blue-green infrastructure that supports both climate resilience and public health.
Streets must be reclaimed as vibrant public places, where urban life happens, rather than car conduits or parking lots.
Decarbonizing how buildings are designed, constructed, and operated is a sea change that is already altering professional principles and practices.
Any smart initiative must improve quality of life, equity and inclusion, not merely gather data or cut costs. All city sizes and budgets can get ‘smarter’ with high‑, low‑ or even no‑tech solutions.
As storms become more intense and unpredictable, our infrastructure must adapt. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) manages runoff naturally, reducing the physical damage, health effects, and restoration costs of flooding. As the largest natural spaces in cities, parks hold great potential for GSI, but often go underutilized due to various challenges. Building GSI in parks can…
At a time of increasing loneliness and mistrust, as well as rising economic uncertainty since the global pandemic, public space provides a unique opportunity to address both challenges at once.
Key Takeaways
⇢ Both natural and urban destinations suffer degradation when visitor numbers exceed the capacity of their core assets, i.e., ecosystems in nature and local way of life in cities.
⇢ Overtourism leads to housing displacement (Airbnb conversion), public‑realm crowding (streets, transport), amenity strain (water, energy, green space) and loss of social cohesion.
⇢ Visitors can mitigate…