Climate, Environment & Resilience

Resisting gentrification: Density of belonging in strangled kampung of BSD City, Indonesia

Microclimate Control for Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Apartment Residential Green Spaces: A Systematic Review of Climate-Responsive Design Strategies and Assessment Methods

The Role of Understory Vegetation in Addressing Urban Heat Island Effects in Kansas City, MO

Beyond the Mega-City Narrative in Urban Informality: Informality and Water Precarity in Jaipur, India

Vegetation Mitigation of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Three South American Cities: A Multi-Method Analysis

Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from Public Transport in Urban Environments: A Systematic Review of Quantification Methods, Technologies, and Decarbonization Pathways

Utilizing citizen science data to understand air pollution exposure disparities in three Irish cities

Development of a spatial vulnerability index for day–night compound heatwaves and exploration of mechanisms underlying heterogeneity: Township-scale evidence from Anhui Province, China

Nonlinear and heterogeneous effects of 2D/3D factors on global urban heat island using explainable spatial machine learning

Urban Flood Risk Prediction Based on the Hybrid Sampling of Imbalanced Data and Deep Learning Model

South Sudan Urbanization Review: Cities as Anchors of Recovery and Resilience

Launched with the Government of South Sudan, the review argues that rapid urbanisation should be harnessed as a driver of stability, jobs and inclusive growth in a post-conflict setting.

World Cities Report 2026: The Global Housing Crisis – Pathways to Action

UN-Habitat's flagship biennial report, launched at the 13th World Urban Forum in Baku, is devoted to the worldwide housing crisis and how planning, governance and finance can respond.

Global patterns of urban heat shaped by climate and morphology

Separates the heat-island contribution of background climate from that of surrounding urban form across 2,213 cities and projects how each will change.

Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming

A global estimate of how much existing urban tree canopy lowers air temperature in 8,919 large cities, and how far trees can offset future climate warming.

Understanding variation in neighbourhood environmental inequalities: The influence of residential segregation, gentrification, and other city-level factors

Asks why neighbourhood exposure to environmental burdens such as air and noise pollution or missing green space differs between cities, testing segregation, gentrification and other city-level factors.