In generous cities, the natural setting guides designers as they integrate environmental, social and economic systems. The goal is for the built environment to function as efficiently as the local ...

A project by Icelandic firm s.ap arkitektar envisions the year 2150, when buildings and cities made from lava could be a ...

Purpose-built cities have come into vogue in recent years, but without much in the way of success. In Abu Dhabi, ... but systems that are part of the wider natural environment.

These newcomers naturally built new towns and cities around bays, harbors, rivers, mountains and fertile valleys. But because they didn’t know the landscape’s history, ...

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OPINION | Strengthening our community ties may become the best way to mitigate disaster risk in our cities.

Cities are starting to restore natural systems such as waterways, wetlands and bushland. But restoration on the scale these systems need to function properly calls for a rethink of urban planning.

George Phydias Mitchell, a pioneer producer of natural gas, ... This huge transition was possible only because cities built vast quantities of housing. In the 1920s alone, ...