Four empty lots in Chicago's South Side bear scars of the past. Their surfaces are strewn with construction debris and foundation rubble. However, the most incriminating evidence of the past lies beneath the surface, in the ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2016
0
9
Hollywood's dystopian movies would have you believe our future looks like the dark Los Angeles of Blade Runner or the grey concrete jungles of Metropolis. But the work of University of Melbourne urban ecologists paints possibilities ...
Environment
Jul 18, 2016
0
45
Our aging cities are badly in need of regeneration. Many established residential areas, the "greyfields," are becoming physically, technologically and environmentally obsolete. They are typically located in low-density, car-dependent ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2022
0
11
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Illinois at Chicago has advised the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to phase in green infrastructure requirements for better and cheaper control of stormwater ...
Environment
Jun 21, 2010
0
0
By the time Hurricane Ida hit Philadelphia in early September, it had already dropped massive rainfall on parts of the Gulf Coast. As the storm continued north, record-breaking downpours in New York City led to extensive ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2021
0
20
Across the U.S., cities have embraced green infrastructure as a way to mitigate flooding, excessive heat, extreme weather, and other urban hazards. Can greening efforts also address social injustices and inequality?
Environment
Dec 1, 2022
0
39
Strategic placement of trees and plants near busy roadways may enhance air quality and positively impact public health.
Environment
Jan 24, 2014
0
0
Around 72 percent of New York City's land is covered in an impervious layer of concrete, living up to its hype as the "concrete jungle" that Alicia Keys and Jay-Z sang about in "Empire State of Mind." This city might be "where ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2019
0
20
In building cities, we have created some of the harshest habitats on Earth—and then chosen to live in them.
Environment
Jun 29, 2021
0
12
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducted a multi-year empirical study to assess the impact of trees on city temperatures. Taking the city of Würzburg as an example, the researchers showed that vegetation ...
Environment
May 20, 2022
1
142
