Environmental Design

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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