We introduce University of Texas - GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS), a dataset providing building heights and urban canopy parameters (UCPs) for more than 1200 city or locales ...
Achieving carbon neutrality is a critical yet elusive goal for many cities, hindered by limited understanding of the relationship between building emissions and their surroundings. To address this ...
In March 2023, President-elect Donald Trump proposed building ten new Freedom Cities to unleash American innovation. Trump envisioned these cities as hubs to revive American manufacturing, recreate a ...
We explore one possibility for relieving the U.S. housing crisis. By Conor Dougherty I cover housing. Amid the sprawl of Orange County, Calif., is something unusual: A 300,000-person city with a dense ...
A program of the U.S. Green Building Council, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification has become a key metric for tracking sustainable construction. While larger cities have ...