Summertime city

As Australia heads into an El Nino summer, UNSW’s Dr Negin Nazarian, an expert in urban climate, explains 5 crucial strategies to keep cities – and people – cooler.

How machine learning can clean up our cities

The use of computational design can pinpoint ways to drive greater efficiencies across the built environment, enabling us to create more sustainable cities.

The living city

Biological metaphors for the city abound in daily use – you may live close to an “arterial” road or in the “heart” of a metropolis – and the use of such metaphors indicates an underlying naturalism in our thinking about the city.

Designing liveable cities for our future climate

The new Climate Imaginary exhibit explores works from architects and urban designers, pushing the boundaries of our imagination to envision better and more creative climate futures for our cities.