"Urban canyons" prolong sonic booms in cities
Twenty years after the retirement of the Concorde, several industrial and research projects want to make supersonic flight a reality again. However, supersonic planes produce sonic booms loud enough to warrant noise concerns and regulations, limiting.....»»
Africa"s megacities threatened by heat, floods, disease—action needed to start greening, adapt to climate change
Cities cover just 3% of the planet. But they emit 78% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, absorb 80% of final global energy (what consumers use) and consume 60% of clean drinking water......»»
Vvolt Slice Lite e-bike review: practical urban e-mobility
Vvolt's Slice Lite epitomizes the urban mobility company's vision of an all-purpose utility e-bike for running errands and getting around town......»»
Cities: Skylines 2 team apologizes, makes DLC free and promises a fan summit
A "complete focus on improving the base game" will happen before more paid DLC. Enlarge / Like the Beach Properties DLC itself, this property looks a bit unfinished and in need of some focus. (credit: Paradox Interactive).....»»
A third of China"s urban population at risk of city sinking, new satellite data shows
Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Virginia Tech. Writing in the journal Science, Prof Robert Nicholls of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at UEA and.....»»
Rewild the soil: The largest urban rewilding project is going underground
The largest urban rewilding project in the U.K. is happening on an old golf course......»»
Cities: Skylines 2 devs offer DLC refunds as console ports get delayed
Colossal Order is correcting course with Cities: Skylines 2 by focusing on free updates and delaying its upcoming content plans......»»
Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface
Fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds......»»
Chennai growth maps blueprint for rural-urban areas in Global South
The ongoing growth of a major Indian city has helped experts to create a new way of understanding how urban sprawl happens, providing potential to improve people's lives across the Global South through better urban planning......»»
New research highlights effects of gentrification on urban wildlife populations across US cities
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city, further limiting marginalized communities' opportunity to c.....»»
Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new light sources when needed ag.....»»
Sonic Dream Team’s next free update adds a new zone and ranking system
Sonic Dream Team is getting a free major update this week as developer Sega Hardlight continues its support for the mobile title following layoffs......»»
Sweet lessons: Taiwan urban beekeeping gets positive buzz
Under mulberry trees at a bee farm in Taipei's suburbs, students watched intently as instructor Tsai Ming-hsien wafted smoke over a hive box, explaining to aspiring apiarists how to keep the insects happy in an urban setting......»»
Innovation linked to international exports for both rural and urban firms
A new study led by Penn State researchers finds that U.S. firms actively engaged in creating innovative products or processes are more likely to expand into international markets. The findings, which apply to both rural and urban companies, could inf.....»»
Pacific cities found to be much older than previously thought
New evidence of one of the first cities in the Pacific shows they were established much earlier than previously thought, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU)......»»
The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans
The cause is unclear, but poverty and worsening health care access are likely factors. Enlarge (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt) In the 1960s and 1970s, people who lived in rural America fared a little better than their ur.....»»
Researchers explain how cities can implement environmentally sustainable densification
The housing situation in Swiss cities and towns is currently the subject of intensive debate in politics and the media. Housing and densification is a key topic for spatial and urban planners—because, ultimately, they are tasked with implementing c.....»»
Research examines tweets during Hurricane María to analyze social media use during disasters
Social media can be a useful tool for communicating during extreme weather events. Omar Pérez Figueroa, an urban and regional planning professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, examined how Twitter (now X) was used when Hurricane Mar.....»»
Humans have converted at least 250,000 acres of estuaries to cities and farms in last 35 years, study finds
Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities have converted 250,000 acres of estuary—an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan—to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary loss in rapi.....»»
Irish castles and ancient Greek rites show culture"s role in regional regeneration
Tapping into the long and rich histories of places around Europe is a central part of an EU push for rural and urban revival......»»
Horror indie game hit Dredge is getting a surprise film adaptation
The media production company behind the Sonic the Hedgehog movies wants to make 2023 horror indie game hit Dredge into a film......»»