People and vehicles share a crowded street in Madurai, India. Photo: Madeleine Jettre/Alamy As we enter a new year, people around the world are grappling with rising costs for housing, energy and food ...

As we enter a new year, people around the world are grappling with rising costs for housing, energy and food. Most worry about the state of the economy. Job prospects feel uncertain in the face of ...

School buses, intended to provide safe and secure rides for all children, are largely failing kids with disabilities, prompting urgent calls for improvements. “I experienced accessibility problems at ...

Design trial conducted at Gokhale Bridge Junction in Andheri, Mumbai. Photo: Akanksha Aggarwal/WRI India People don’t just ...

People don’t just use streets; they respond to them. The placement of curbs, alignment of crossings and painted markings directly shape how safely and predictably people move. How people interpret the ...

Nossa Cidade (“Our City”), from TheCityFix Brasil, explores critical questions for building more sustainable cities. Every month features a new theme. Leaning on the expertise of researchers and ...

Our impressions of a city are formed mainly by the quality of public spaces. If they are not pleasant and preserved, or if they transmit a sense of insecurity, we will seldom return. Good planning of ...

Mexico City has the largest bike-sharing program in Latin America, Ecobici, with over 6,000 bikes and a competitive ride-hailing market with an estimated 200,000-plus drivers. Photo: benedek/iStock ...

This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Many cities have streets ...

Oslo’s City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to ...

A new tool helps cities visualize the connections between climate change and the urban environment through various sustainability metrics. Photo: Eric Isselee/Shutterstock Climate change is impacting ...

Walking is the oldest, most democratic way to get around. But as urban areas have become more sprawled, walking has slowly been suffocated by other modes of transport that are less healthy for both ...