The public bathroom crisis is over a century in the making. A new book from scholar Bryant Simon chronicles the history.

The need for social equity as fundamental to climate adaptation is well recognised in policy circles, including the necessity to prioritise vulnerable communities in the Global South. Nevertheless,...

A new University of Michigan study helps show how builders and city planners can minimize the materials needed to accommodate the planet's future population.

South Korea has cut household food waste going to landfill from 97% to almost nothing. New York City has started sending its scraps the same way.

The South African waste management ecosystem is characterised by competition and rivalry between the formal and informal sectors. Although this dynamic has been widely documented, it is too often p...

This practice review considers social and community farming as similar approaches to connecting society with farming and farming with society in Northern Ireland. It outlines how both processes cre...

Op-ed: The climate and housing movements often frame their goals as being in competition. But housing affordability and climate action reinforce one another when designed together.

Best Urban Planning Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. 99% Invisible ⋅ 2. The Aesthetic City ⋅ 3. Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast ⋅ 4. American Planning Association ⋅ 5. The Streets Are Planning

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

Government-run, nonprofit grocery systems can better respond to food-price inflation, corporate consolidation, and inequality.

Urban food strategies are considered instrumental for mobilising public, private, and civil society actors in collectively building more just and sustainable urban food systems. However, the govern...

Extreme weather events in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) have exposed the urgent need for inclusive climate adaptation. However, the specific experiences of young women and gender-...

Running a farm is tough – TV’s Clarkson’s Farm shows that – but I know many minorities would love the chance. And we would all benefit, says farmer and businessman Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

As millions of small businesses face ownership transitions, cities trying to revive commercial corridors may be overlooking one of their best sources of new investment: immigrant entrepreneurs.

Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities

Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study shows

With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’

Decisions made today will profoundly impact the lives of present young people and future generations, including with irreversible biodiversity loss and climate change. It raises questions of how in...

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on…

Many of France’s buildings are not designed for hot weather – and low-income housing estates are suffering the worst

Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety

Passengers on MBTA bus routes 23, 28, and 29 will continue to ride free through the end of this year as an extension of Boston’s fare-free bus service. The routes...

While there has been much interest in community energy (CE) within policy and academia, political interest and support have fluctuated in most European countries, depending on the political orienta...

Bioeconomy and circular economy are gaining more prominence as sustainable production paradigms, but their relationship with the gender dimension has traditionally been underexplored. This article ...

Deep-rooted problems of food inequality are hidden behind area’s affluence and beauty

This paper reviews a decade of critical scholarship on the development of the “Green City” in the Global North, examining how these critiques address socio-environmental justice, spatial scales, an...

Land use policies, though seemingly race-neutral, can inadvertently contribute to racial segregation. Our study focuses on examining the impact of minimum lot size regulations on the likelihood of et...

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on…

With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

An architect and urban theorist argues that the techno-colonialism bred in Silicon Valley's tech campuses is now being applied to cities — and the data center boom is its latest frontier.

Generating finance to protect and restore nature is crucial to address the worsening global biodiversity crisis.

Elizabeth Sanna Barron

Cities@Tufts is a cross-disciplinary academic initiative which recognizes Tufts University as a leader in urban studies, urban planning and sustainability issues. Anchored by the department of Urban a...

From rainwater harvesting to tree nurseries, communities in Medellín are taking steps to increase their landslide and flooding resilience

What roles should cities play in feeding their citizens? Our research analyzes the extent to which municipalities are using local market interventions…

Ongoing debates on the importance of creating a more inclusive and democratic food governance context have widely emphasised the potential of “food policy councils” as multi-actor alliances that cu...

Climate change adaptation’s place in the contemporary climate change discourse continues to evolve, as does its identity as a form of inquiry, mode of critique, form of policy and type of practice....

This paper reviews a decade of critical scholarship on the development of the “Green City” in the Global North, examining how these critiques address socio-environmental justice, spatial scales, an...

Amid a growing crisis of loneliness across high-income societies, belonging offers a generative lens for examining how experiences of connection arise through everyday interactions. Community garde...

Advocates often assume communities of color just don’t know any better when it comes to eating healthy

Walking together can be a powerful way to feel a sense of belonging in our environment.

Edward Bartholomew, IALD, LC, LEED AP, IES, is Principal of Bartholomew Lighting and co-founder of Light Justice.