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Many would like city centers to become greener and car-free. Parts of Copenhagen and Barcelona are already there. But bikes and pedestrian zones aren't enough.

An international consortium reports the largest-ever global metagenomic study of urban microbiomes, spanning the air and the surfaces of multiple cities. The project, which sequenced and analyzed samples collected from public transit systems and hospitals in 60 cities around the world, features comprehensive analysis and annotation for all the microbial species identified -- including thousands of viruses and bacteria and two archaea not found in reference databases. The study appears May 26 in ...

Oregon Court of Appeals rules in favor of urban growth boundary expansion Frog Pond East and South, future Wilsonville neighborhoods, were included in that 2018 Metro decision The Oregon Court of Appeals recently issued a favorable ruling for the prospects of future Wilsonville neighborhoods near Advance Road. The Land Conservation and Development Commissions approval of Metros 2018 urban growth boundary expansion — which included future Frog Pond East and South neighborhoods in Wi...

As climate change impacts become starker, interest in geoengineering is growing. Geoengineering is “climate manipulation technologies that we can

New research published in Nature provides a powerful yet surprisingly simple way to determine the number of visitors to any location in a city.

Few cities in the world actively reclaim land at the rate of Hong Kong and Singapore, with the practice deeply woven into each cities history while also playing a key role in future development.

Current wireless networks such as Wi-Fi, LTE-Advanced, etc., work in the lower radio spectrum, below 6 GHz. Experts warn that soon this band will become congested due to mushrooming data traffic. It is calculated that by 2024, 17,722 million devices will be connected.

With a global impetus toward utilizing more renewable energy sources, wind presents a promising, increasingly tapped resource. Despite the many technological advancements made in upgrading wind-powered systems, a systematic and reliable way to assess competing technologies has been a challenge. Researchers at Texas A&M University, in collaboration with international energy industry partners, have used advanced data science methods and ideas from the social sciences to compare the performance of ...

 E-Mail LED lightbulbs offer considerable advantages over other types of lighting. Being more efficient, they require much less electricity to operate. They do not give off unwanted heat the way old-school incandescent bulbs do, and the best of them long outlast even fluorescent lightbulbs. But LEDs are not problem-free. Questions linger over suspected links between health concerns such as fatigue, mood disorders, and insomnia from overexposure to the blue-tinted light produced by todays stand...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A joint QUT, RMIT and University of Indiana study finds successful cities are ones that offer vitality and open-minded among citizens. view more  Credit: QUT Media "If you build it, they will come," so says the idiom but its the storytellers, knowledge-makers and an "agentic" or open-minded population who help create great entrepreneurial cities. A new research study, conducted by QUT, RMIT and the University of Indiana, analysed data from 362 American cities with a foc...