Future cities

Wood is one of the oldest building materials but its use is limited by its properties. With new funding, researchers aim to stretch these properties...

The construction industry could slash its carbon emissions by as much as 50% by optimising the design of new buildings, which currently use double...

A new network of public and private sector organisations aims to carry out retrofits across Cambridge, bringing down carbon emissions, cutting energy...

More and more of us live in cities where disparate communities jostle for space. Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will give a public lecture on...

Through analysis of human resilience, particularly in cities, Professor Ash Amin believes that state guarantees of welfare and infrastructure will...

A new online platform will harness crowdsourcing to identify the visual cues that lead people to perceive an urban space as happy, quiet or beautiful...

A new project has shown that by using existing sources of information about traffic flow it is possible to create a minute-by-minute image of...

Foreign investors now own the majority of City of London offices, according to a new study from the Department of Land Economy.