Environmental Design

Sciences & Technology

When it’s hot in the city, let green spaces do the sweating for you

Everyone needs access to urban green spaces, not just those in more affluent areas

Environment

How our housing can make it feel like an Arctic winter

Australia’s housing just isn’t good enough when it comes to dealing with winter temperatures – we need to take lessons from the Northern Hemisphere

Environment

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Podcast

Encore: Unexpected outcome in bagging area

How the 5p plastic bag tax changed British habits overnight, and why we should think twice about our takeaway coffee cups

Health & Medicine

Creating a world that works for young and old

As our population ages, we need to develop private and public spaces that enable rather than constrain older people

Health & Medicine

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Go Figure

Now we know: Why we stand in queues

Queuing is governed as much by environmental design as unspoken rules promoting equality and efficiency