As urban housebuilding strategies around the world increasingly push families out, the ‘sidewalk ballet’ — and heart — of community life is under threat

Second City leaders have discussed following Manhattan’s lead in tolling roads to ease traffic. But a Chicago-style version of New York’s policy might look very different.

Local transport minister describes initiative as fundamental issue of fairness in people’s ability to walk in their neighbourhoods

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A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

The most vulnerable places are, overwhelmingly, the same places that suffered industrial decline in the 1980s.

To drive down transportation costs and move the needle on affordability, Americans need to embrace living closer together.

Abstract. We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the 20th century using 2.7 million newspaper real

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Is your transit agency succeeding?  It depends on what it’s trying to do, and most transit agencies haven’t been given clear direction about what they should be trying to do.  Different people have di...

Palestinian students in Gaza who earned places at top UK universities are being stranded by political indifference.

Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: Climate Urbanism, Resilience and Justice. Submission deadline: 31 January 2026.

In this episode, Divya speaks with Sean Fox and Gregory Randolph about urbanization and how it is unfolding amid global shocks and affecting inequality. Sean Fox is a Professor of Geography and Globa

npj Women's Health - Reproductive milestones and oral contraceptive timing predict late-life mortality

A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

When certain groups of people are systematically undercounted, they become invisible to policymakers.

Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?