Brisbane City wants to preserve backyards, but they account for much of the open space lost to development under policies that also aim to increase housing density in existing urban areas.

A global study of urban sprawl shows mixed results in the Bay San Jose State University is visible to the right of the San Jose City Hall building in this aerial photograph taken of downtown San ...

It replaces them with 3000 new trees annually as part of an urban-forest strategy. It’s no easy feat escaping a heatwave in Brisbane. Brisbane City with North Stradbroke Island in the background.

Researchers argue that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses open ...

Journal Reference: Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball. Global trends towards urban street-network sprawl. PNAS, 2020 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905232116 ...

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 04 May 2020 Urban sprawl overspreads Earth at an unprecedented speed Satellite imagery shows that although the global population is growing, urban areas are growing even faster.

Global study of urban sprawl shows mixed results in the Bay San Jose State University is visible to the right of the San Jose City Hall building in this aerial photograph taken of downtown San ...