1, top). The park, conceived of by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1858 as the “lungs of the city,” (Fisher 2010), was envisioned as a socio-ecological shock absorber for the harsh realities of urban life during the
5.2. Case 2: Portland city in the United States is a North American city striving to lead in sustainability endeavors The goal is to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants and reduce the environmental impact of urbanisation. The main identified parameters that enhance walkability in the ...
cars and lifts – is the variation in life expectancy across them. In the UK,it’s common for life expectancy to vary by around 20 years between the poorest and richest parts of the same city.
The Merseyside region has undergone a series of industrial and urban developments since the Industrial Revolution and remains a UK centre for chemicals production. Furthermore, populations in Merseyside suffer some of the worst life expectancy and health statistics in England21(SI TableS1, Fig.S1) t...
the country's metropolitan regions needs to adapt to increasing populations while maintaining equity and quality of life. India's urban population is expected to exceed 600 million by 2030, drawing attention to both urban density and sprawl. As an emerging player in the domain of high-rise devel...
. Nevertheless, small initiatives such as urban gardens, either at home or public gardens run by the community, might be a good starting point for a much bigger change in the future. Or perhaps they simply represent a desire to return to one's roots and achieve a slightly slower lifestyle...
As a result, we anticipate big improvements in the quality of life for city residents. Welcome to the urban-mobility revolution. Approaching the tipping point Understanding how a city’s mobility system will evolve is complex. We have developed a framework (Exhibit 1) to help stakeholders ...
s Fair displayed a vision for the future that in many ways reflected the concrete highways and highrises constructed at the time. We now recognise that the environments those structures created often failed to support healthy personal and community life. In 50 years’ time, how will we perceive...
For at least the last 50 years, we have been observing that life is speeding up and becoming more complicated. In his 1964 work “Notes on the Synthesis of Form“, the town planner Christopher Alexander wrote: “At the same time that the problems increase in quantity, complexity and difficu...
It is in this context that the potential of urban rivers in Colombia for the provision of ecosystem services and a better quality of life has experienced a great boom. Cities throughout the country have been formulating and implementing revitalization and renaturalization plans for their riverside ...