Pigeons sure, but urban eagles and city vultures? A beautifully illustrated new book, Urban Aviary, spills their secrets.

Tomorrow's home urban farm may not need soil, just an Urban Farm Pod that doubles as an extra living space (emphasis on the "living").

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and

This self-sustaining mini-ecosystem is made by a designer who wants to create habitable structures that are also themselves alive.

This month, BookHugger presents The Agile City by James S. Russell. Readers can order a discounted copy today and watch a recording of the live discussion above.

This month, BookHugger presents Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability edited by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J.

This month, BookHugger presents Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs edited by Max Allen with an introduction by Mary Rowe. Readers can order a discounted copy today and join in a discussion with distinguished urban

The title is deceptive; it is a real page-turner that will open your eyes to what really affects urban design.

A pull between city life and the slower pace of nature inspired author and illustrator Julia Rothmans to create “Nature Anatomy.”

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

Researchers combine social media and artificial intelligence to better predict damage from global sea level changes

The largest city in America, home to the worst traffic jam in history and the highest number of helicopters in the world, is trying to start a bike revolution in elementary schools.

Of all of Niemeyer's impressive works, the 1960s Copan building in Sao Paulo is the one speaking directly to contemporary urban trends.

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

Did you know honey has its own sound? Using honey and other tools, this bee enthusiast wants to raise awareness about bee colony collapse disorder through music.

It's got something for everybody in a compact and clever e-bike that can carry a big load.

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.

The turbines leave no room for the eye-sore excuse.

Starting in September, I embark on a nationwide book tour for my new book entitled Urban Green: Architecture for the Future. The tour will take me to more than 20 universities and colleges across

Big surprises can come in little packages - and that's what I found when I visited Winthrop University during my book tour stop at the school. The campus is located just south of Charlotte, NC in

Today is the end of the first week of my book tour for my new book Urban Green. I've crisscrossed North and South Carolina to engage as many people as I can at some of the best schools in the

This summer, students are spending 8 weeks conserving nature in hands-on environmental internships in NY and Philadelphia for The Nature Conservancy’s Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities initiative.

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.

Americans don't walk and stop and cafés or take vacations. That's why they get to drive $75,000 plug-in hybrids.

From commuting to cocktails, the new collection from Nau offers sexy, versatile, and ever-so-practical looks.

A compact apartment in a traditional building near Barcelona's waterfront is transformed into an airy, modern home.

NACTO lays out a vision for how autonomous vehicles, and technology more broadly, can work in service of safe, sustainable, equitable, vibrant cities.

The parts of New York City with the lowest density have the highest rate of COVID-19 infection.

Urbanists are rethinking what's important about our cities in view of the pandemic.

Virtual tour of 350 Fifth, a new 20-story office building in one of the top-ranked U.S. cities for sustainable buildings. Pt. 1 Pittsburgh-Gateway to the World & 350 Fifth Urban Genius.

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The Walgreens Wellness Tour with the National Urban League is a community outreach program that helps provide free health tests and education to urban and at-risk communities across the country.

Addressing the urban diabetes challenge

Milan is home to the Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, a striking development of residential buildings.

The Maharashtra government may extend the lockdown in the coronavirus-hit urban areas of the state after May 3, an official said on Sunday. The state government is closely monitoring the situation in areas outside the cities of Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Amravati, a senior state official said. "It is the cities where most of the COVID-19 cases are concentrated. If the state has to relax its current stringent lockdown measures, it would be in rural and least affected
areas of the state. However, we are looking at the scenario as rural and urban areas are connected," he said.

Despite minimum COVID-19 cases in rural areas of Pune district, the industries there have not resumed because most of their workforce live in cities, he said. We need to work out some plans for every city or district-wise to get things moving. The administration needs more time to come up with solutions, hence it is highly unlikely to lift the lockdown restrictions May 3 onwards in all parts of the state, the official said.

State Health Minister Rajesh Tope had on Saturday said the number of COVID-19 cases in the state is not coming down. "The state is yet to reach a stage where the number of coronavirus cases would stabilise. Till then, we cannot take the risk of allowing people to gather at public places in large numbers, Tope said.

The minister, however, said the state government would take a collective decision on what to do once the nationwide lockdown ends on May 3.

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SIR-Network Model - new mathematical model offers a simplified approach to studying the spread of dengue fever in urban areas. The model is

New study uses photovoice methodology and qualitatively compares citizens' perceptions about the food environment in three Bilbao neighborhoods with different socioeconomic levels.

Study finds irrigation more common on city farms than rural farms, intensifying water demands in sprawling urban zones.

Recent research conducted by IWMI, in collaboration with the IFPRI and IFAD, finds that the poorest are likelier to migrate when increases in incomes are accompanied by increases in local income inequalities.

While wealthier people have chosen alternatives to urban nursing homes, the urban poor still depend on them for long-term care. A new study led by researchers

Teen boys who have lower resources in urban communities have surprisingly fewer incidents of sexual violence, youth violence, and bullying in the presence of adult social support.

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