Price of urban sprawl

Urban sprawl has caused conditions of insecurity in the peri-urban areas.

Africa’s poster city

Board Game>> Urbanisation • Nigeria

Shoes for tea

Cafe>> Heritage • Argentina

A green facade

Plea from rooftops

Photographs>> Obama • Cambodia

Welcome to Monrovia

Map>> Civil War • Liberia

A town under the hammer

Auction>> Town • The US

Google’s oversight

Maps>> Shantytowns • Brazil

Oasis of quiet

FESTIVAL>>NOISE • Australia

To pull down or not

Radio Tower>> Architecture • Russia

From the blurbs

Recreating Denmark

Computer Game>> Real Estate • Denmark

Cool cover

New panel can make buildings reflect heat, cut cooling cost

A call from within

From the blurbs

A tale of two cities

Keep it flowing

Tour of a house that thrives on air circulation, saves energy cost

Bird species in northeastern India shifting to higher elevations, face threat of extinction

Researchers say certain bird species shifting to degraded forest systems for climate change adaptation may go extinct  

What’s good insulation?

Many architects use imported, expensive and environmentally inappropriate material

The myth of green building

How smart is a smart city?

Stress in the city

How brain behaves when stress builds up

City scan

How happy are people living in cities?

Hope in jaywalkers

The dominant urban vision is deeply exclusionary

Simply Put: The encroachers