Urban Planning

In recent decades, there has been a growing understanding that small parts of a city – specific street segments – may have a greater impact on crime. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Crime Hotspots: Does the Street We Live On Change Hormones Related to Aggression and Anxiety?

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A planned Israeli study will map street sections in Tel Aviv and examine whether living in areas with high crime is linked to testosterone and cortisol levels and measures of mental well-being.
Dubai, before the mass planting of trees. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Dubai: A blooming desert or a green illusion?

Behind urban afforestation and sparkling green corners lie high water and energy consumption, pressures on desert systems, and difficult questions about sustainability. Is this ecological restoration – or urban greenwashing?
In recent years, there has been a noticeable change in the attitude of local authorities in Israel towards the need to deal with the problem of urban heat. Photo: Pixabay

How to cool down a hot city: New guide helps authorities fight urban heat

In an era of record-breaking temperatures and scorching neighborhoods, cities must prepare for next summer – now. A new professional document provides local authorities with practical tools to cool the street, the neighborhood, and the entire city.
New York City's waterfront. The city is sinking at a rate of 5 mm per year. Combined with rising sea levels, the risk increases. Illustration: depositphotos.com

28 of the largest cities in the US are sinking – and the climate crisis is exacerbating the risk

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New study reveals: Land subsidence threatens infrastructure in the heart of major US cities. Houston leads in subsidence, but New York, Dallas and Los Angeles are also affected. Groundwater pumping, weight of buildings, drought and crisis
Two contrasting worlds: a polluting industrial landscape next to a sustainable green city. The illustration was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Climate crisis is costing us our health

Illustration - Renewed Hope: Dealing with the problem of flooding in an old urban fabric, a moral paradise, within the framework of the Climate Crisis and Environment Studio _ LandBasics Local Landscapes under the guidance of: Matanya Zak, Aliza Broida, Isabella Levy. Final project in landscape architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning - Technion

The architects of change

A green city? This is not a paradox. An optimistic look at a differently designed future, through the final projects of the landscape architecture course at the Technion, which dealt with creative solutions for a more sustainable planning of the Israeli space

City of summer

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Positive cities act as one organism integrated into the environment. Pictured - NASA's Sustainability Base Center. Source: NASA.

How "smart cities" can save the planet

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Transportation networks of vehicles equipped with sensors and smart nodes will change from end to end the way we move in the city. Illustration: Jaguar MENA / Flickr.

How driverless cars will change life in the city

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Urban shadow. A significant difference in the feeling of heat. Photo: Sawyer Bengtson on Unsplash.

Heavy thermal load

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Urban landscape with trees. Better to focus on lower vegetation. Photo: Vladimir Kudinov.

The generous discourse

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snow in Jerusalem. Photo: Miriam Mezzera, Flickr.

Why is it colder in my house?

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