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Small Spaces in the City review: Can we thrive in a smaller future?

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Small Spaces in the City review: Can we thrive in a smaller future?

As we increasingly live in cities, tiny apartments are likely to become the norm. A new exhibition has clever space-managing ideas – but also stark warnings about the health challenges ahead

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Urban Jungle review: The new challenge of cities teeming with life

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Urban Jungle review: The new challenge of cities teeming with life

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Oosterschelde flood barrier with windmills in the Netherlands at the Northern Sea taken from above with a drone

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Coastal cities have added 2500 squares kilometres of land since 2000

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Trees help to ease the “urban heat island effect”, which sees temperatures in cities climb higher than in nearby rural areas

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Doubling trees in European cities could prevent thousands of deaths

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An abstract cityscape

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Large cities lead to more segregation between rich and poor

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Aerial view of Central Park, New York City

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Global warming could kill many of the tree species that cool cities

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Tractors and lorries in the flooded streets of Bangalore

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Bangalore floods highlight how cities must adapt to climate change

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(c) Jussi Hellsten www.jussihellsten.com www.instagram.com/jussihellsten Kalasatama area from above, 2019

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The Helsinki neighbourhood leading the way to zero-carbon cities

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

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City skyline view of London, England with autumn trees on a misty morning as viewed from a North London park; Shutterstock ID 506890648; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Trees cool the land surface temperature of cities by up to 12°C

An analysis of satellite data from 293 cities in Europe has found that trees have a big cooling effect while other green spaces don't

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Lost capital city of the Mongol Empire was far bigger than thought

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People in cities have faced huge increase in heat exposure since 1983

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These streets aren't made for walking: Why sidewalks need a rethink

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Anu Ramaswami interview: How to shape the cities of the future

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