Urban environments have become living laboratories where human design choices directly influence the climate we experience every day. With more than half the world's population now living in cities, ...

Ecosystems and city systems often form hierarchically structured landscapes whose spatial pattern is scale dependent. While trends in the upper tail of national city-size distributions leave the ...

How age, car ownership, and online activities affect urban sustainability A research team from the Urban and Transportation Systems Laboratory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, ...

Patterns summarize discovered design solutions that make people most comfortable in experiencing and using built form. Their relative merit is that they were decided on a firm (in many cases ...

A night view of Gangnam Express Bus Terminal captured by a drone portrays the city after dark as a circuit board divided by countless signal lines and lights. The glowing outlines of buildings and the ...