Planning for hurricanes
Rainstorms in 1960 look different from those in 2017, both in terms of intensity and rainfall.
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SpaceX's Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022
Futurist and inventor Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour.
Retrofitted cities are forcing residents to live with planning failures
Australia will probably look back on the current period of attempting to retrofit its capital cities as a great demonstration of poor city planning.
Sidelining planners makes for poorer urban policy, and future generations will pay the price
Modern urban planning first came about to improve industrial cities that had become unsafe, unhealthy and essentially unliveable. However, new policies in Australia and New Zealand view planning as a cause of urban problems, ...
Security planning for urban areas simplified
For the first time, security aspects regarding urban planning have already been taken into account during the design phase. Software identifies and analyzes specific risks, quantifies damages and proposes solutions. VITRUV ...
Designing cities to combat climate change
Urban planners can take steps to reduce the heat cities may experience from climate change, but there would be other consequences and tradeoffs to consider, according to a study at Purdue University.
Smart cities better defined by new research
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a handful of key elements that define 'smart cities'– cities like Singapore and Copenhagen, which are both at the top of their game in using technology to enable ...
Urban sprawl stunts upward mobility, study finds
A recent study by University of Utah Department of City & Metropolitan Planning professor Reid Ewing and his colleagues in Utah, Texas and Louisiana, tested the relationship between urban sprawl and upward mobility for metropolitan ...
Peru's ancient city Caral inspires modern architects
Architects seeking solutions for sustainable living in the 21st century are taking notes from the ancient city of Caral in Peru, an engineering marvel built some 5,000 years ago.
Study suggests reducing energy demand in the future may be centered on developing cities
(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from institutions in the U.S. and Germany has found that the greatest opportunity for reducing predicted energy demands over the next half-century lies with cities that ...
