In Boulder, Colorado, U.S. — a recognized child-friendly city — families enjoy the shallow Boulder Creek renovation, ...

Before flooding in 2024, houses in Nairobi's Mathare settlement reached the very edges of both the Gitathuru and Mathare ...

Located on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Kibera is one of the Africa’s largest informal settlements. Photo: Nick NA/Shutterstock There’s a growing housing crisis that’s impossible to ignore.

Urban news & analysis from WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities ...

Walking is the oldest, most democratic way to get around. But as urban areas have become more sprawled, walking has slowly been suffocated by other modes of transport that are less healthy for both ...

Oslo’s City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to ...

Our impressions of a city are formed mainly by the quality of public spaces. If they are not pleasant and preserved, or if they transmit a sense of insecurity, we will seldom return. Good planning of ...

People pass by a Tesla showroom in New York City. Rollbacks of federal incentives are creating an uncertain future for electric vehicle sales in the U.S. Photo: Elena Chertovskikh/iStock Momentum for ...

This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Many cities have streets ...

They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October ...

Newly planted trees line the Piassa-Mexico-Sarbet-Gotera-Wollo Sefer corridor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Implemented during the first phase of the city’s corridor development project, the trees provide ...