Climate & Environment in Urban Planning

Exploring how cities can adapt, mitigate, and thrive through sustainable design and policy.

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Transportation

Transportation Planning: The Hidden Climate Impacts of Ride-Hailing in Indonesia

Online platforms such as Gojek, Grab, and Maxim now play a significant role in urban mobility in Indonesia. Even so, depend solely as the main transportation can increase climate issues.

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Climate

Urban Just Transition in the Global South: Rethinking Justice Beyond Decarbonization

Decarbonisation alone does not guarantee justice. It is because a truly just transition requires multiple dimensions of justice

Mobility

The Return of the Tram: Seoul’s Bet on a New Mobility

After nearly six decades, trams are returning to Seoul, not as a nostalgic symbol, but as a modern response to growing congestion and climate challenges in one of Asia’s densest metropolitan regions.