RESEARCH PATHWAY: personal reflections on a career in research

How can cities achieve higher levels of public support for, and behavioural engagement in, climate mitigation and adaptation?

This is a step-change in the evidence available for analysis of energy demand, decarbonisation and retrofit across the building stock.

Why do response efforts remain fragmented even when multiple actors mobilise simultaneously?

Rob Harris (Ramidus Consulting) reflects on Frank Duffy’s achievements and relevance to the wider research and practice communities.

EVENT: 20-22 April 2026

Call for Abstracts: deadline 26.04.2026.

In 2025, a decade after the 2015 Ghorka earthquake in Nepal, the reconstruction efforts of Kathmandu and the adjacent city of Lalitpur remain incomplete. This paper investigates why sites are still…

What are the roles and impacts that Living Labs play in increasing civic resilience and supporting ecological transition in different contexts and at different scales?

Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt & Fionn Stevenson

Research

Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt & Fionn Stevenson

Edited by Anitra Nelson. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032650159

Buildings & Cities gratefully acknowledges and thanks our reviewers.

Synthesis

Guest editors: Satu Huuhka, Kjartan Gudmundsson & Paul Jonker-Hoffrén

This study analyses a real-world experiment (RWE) on heat transition in the urban context of a city–university partnership in Bochum, Germany, highlighting the theoretical foundations, methodological…

Empowering youth in urban governance is essential to align immediate societal concerns with long-term sustainability. Urban living labs (ULLs) provide a valuable framework for embedding youth…

Urban living labs (ULLs) have been widely adopted as collaborative experiments for tackling urban challenges, yet are critiqued for privileging institutional leadership, technocentrism and limited…

Reaching the carbon-neutrality targets of cities necessitates not only reducing emissions but also enhancing carbon sinks. This is enabled by urban green infrastructure (UGI), which is a…

A methodological framework is presented for integrating 1.5°C-aligned greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets into architectural practice. Responding to the urgent need to decarbonise the built environment,…

Building lifetime is a useful metric that serves as an input for many analyses, including property valuation, life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis and building stock analysis. Additionally,…

By Pablo M. La Roche. CRC Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781003014829

By Kay Sargent. John Wiley & Sons, 2025, ISBN: 1394309337

Guest editors: Satu Huuhka, Kjartan Gudmundsson & Paul Jonker-Hoffrén

Deadline for abstracts: 05 December 2025

Watch the winning videos from the 2025 Video Challenge! PhD candidates explain the significance of their 'next generation' research.

Articles on category Video Challenge. Buildings and Cities

In the bustling corridors of Moorfields Eye Hospital, a silent revolution is underway, one that could reshape how we think about patient flow and clinic design. At the heart of this transformation is…

As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design?

Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen

By Adele Houghton and Carlos Castillo-Salgado. John Hopkins University Press, 2025, ISBN: 9781421450698

Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen

As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design?

Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen

We are seeking 2 people to journal our editorial team

As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design?

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

Why policymakers should create mitigation roadmaps for construction and real estate