From “Life Between Buildings” to “Human Transit,” Island Press has played a critical role in building the catalogue of ...

Advocates Industry to Harness Green Finance to Tackle Climate and Ecological Challenges for Building a Sustainable Future ...

The built environment plays an integral role in meeting society’s most basic needs of shelter, security, mobility, community, and water and waste treatment, but it also contributes significantly to ...

The psychological cost of zoning. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Our built environment contributes to a ...

Excerpts from Chapters 2 and 4 of Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, by RECORD contributor Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of ...

The built environment is facing a combination of housing, climate, and accessibility challenges. Addressing these challenges is an increasingly complex and delicate balance that can only be resolved ...

The Netherlands is a pleasant place to live and work, with high standards for transport, infrastructure, and housing. However, a combination of housing, climate, and accessibility challenges is ...

In the UK environmental impacts are controlled by legislation, particularly planning law. There are also voluntary standards that are in widespread use in the property and development industry to ...