The urban environment's impact on mental health is increasingly the subject of scrutiny, with many urban planners urging ...

Cars are such a central part of American life that we often do not realize how dependent our day-to-day survival is reliant on consistent access to a vehicle. However, cities and towns were not always ...

Ifeoma Ebo, an urban designer and planner based in New York City, has had a hand in a number of the city’s equitable design efforts—from developing guiding principles for the city’s Department of ...

The Environmental Design Professional Development Services team is spotlighting members of the ENVD Community. This week, the office features a conversation with Korey White, an architect and urban ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

As an MIT professor, an architect, and an urban planner, Tunney Lee could look at buildings — particularly in Chinatown, where he grew up — and see much more than bricks and mortar. “He could tell you ...

Environmental neuroscience is an emerging field devoted to studying the impact of social and physical environments on brain processes and behaviour. From the various opportunities for social ...

Can we design cities that heal? We talk with an architect and urban planner about how to change the brick-and-mortar world for better human health. World Bank Blogs: "A functional city’s response to ...