People sit outside in Bogotá, Colombia. WRI analysis shows the city has the potential to increase its tree cover by 244%.

Shenzhen Talent Park in Houhai Central District. Photo: Andrii Zymohliad/Flickr In Shenzhen’s Houhai Central District, summer ...

People pass by a Tesla showroom in New York City. Rollbacks of federal incentives are creating an uncertain future for ...

Opened in 2016 as part of Telehouse’s London Dockland Campus, Telehouse North Two is an 11-story windowless data center ...

Momentum for electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States is starting to slip. After years of rapid growth — fueled by federal incentives and nearly $200 billion in announced EV manufacturing ...

Urban news & analysis from WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities ...

Oslo’s City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to ...

Walking is the oldest, most democratic way to get around. But as urban areas have become more sprawled, walking has slowly been suffocated by other modes of transport that are less healthy for both ...

An installation crew from Alexandra Water Warriors tests a litter trap in the Jukskei River. Photo: Jenna Echakowitz/SUNCASA In Gauteng Province, the Jukskei River winds its way through the heart of ...

Our impressions of a city are formed mainly by the quality of public spaces. If they are not pleasant and preserved, or if they transmit a sense of insecurity, we will seldom return. Good planning of ...

Newly planted trees line the Piassa-Mexico-Sarbet-Gotera-Wollo Sefer corridor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Implemented during the first phase of the city’s corridor development project, the trees provide ...

This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Many cities have streets ...