Urban sustainability news

• 100 US cities have now abolished parking mandates, freeing up space for housing, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 19, 2025)
• Chicago eases parking mandates to spur affordable housing development, smartcitiesdive.com (Sep 05, 2025)
• As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 05, 2025)
• Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 30, 2025)
• Medellín’s sublime return to nature – in pictures, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2025)
• How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 05, 2025)
• Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?, carbonbrief.org (Jun 03, 2025)
• Kenya’s third-largest city reimagines urban living, theprogressplaybook.com (May 18, 2025)
• How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025)
• Inside Washington’s groundbreaking parking reforms, theprogressplaybook.com (May 05, 2025)
• Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze, BBC Future (Apr 27, 2025)
• How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities, theconversation.com (Apr 24, 2025)
• ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025)
• Kathmandu, Nepal's liquid landscape: Hiti Pranali water heritage, globalvoices.org (Apr 13, 2025)
• Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free, bloomberg.com (Mar 24, 2025)
• ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
• Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
• Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025)

• ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024)
• From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)

• Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)

• Urban greening in Africa will help to build climate resilience – planners and governments need to work with nature, theconversation.com (Jul 22, 2024)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden

• Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)

• ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)

• Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024)

• ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)

• Paris puts people and bicycles at the heart of ambitious new climate plan, momentummag.com (Nov 29, 2023)
• On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)

• From grey to green: the plan to turn Paris’s zinc rooftops into gardens, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2023)
• Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
• ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
• The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)

• How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
• Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)

• How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
• Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)

• How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
• Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)

• Talking robots, urban bogs and free bikes: inside Europe’s ‘green capital’, Positive News (May 02, 2023)

• Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
• Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows, The Conversation (Jun 27, 2022)
• Imagine we designed our cities on Seven Generations principles - actively stewarding our places for the future, The Daily Alternative (Jun 26, 2022)
• More flowers, fewer cars: the rewilders turning parking spaces into parks, The Guardian (Jun 22, 2022) — Across the UK and Europe, the ‘parklet’ movement is gaining pace, transforming dead spaces where cars used to be into pockets of green
• Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
• Concrete fuels climate change – but there’s a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
• As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers, The Conversation (Mar 15, 2022)

Bauhaus in Africa: the hospital in sweltering Senegal inspired – and funded – by the Albers, Nov 11...theguardian.com

• Colombia's Medellin plants 'green corridors' to beat rising heat, Jul 28...news.trust.org

• Car Free Cities for climate and health, wen.org.uk (Jun 21, 2021) — and why climate justice is a feminist issue.