Future cities

Against a global backdrop of rising energy demands and finite resources, Rihab Khalid set out to understand how buildings can become more energy...

Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the...

The University of Cambridge and the Nanjing Municipal Government have broken ground on the Cambridge University-Nanjing Centre of Technology and...

The new joint centre will support innovative research into smart cities and fully integrated urban environments.

Cities exist in a state of constant flux: not always ‘smart’ and successful, they can be vulnerable, chaotic and seem on the edge of failure. Nowhere...

The cities of today are built with concrete and steel – but some Cambridge researchers think that the cities of the future need to go back to nature...

Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new housing and infrastructure developments could make...

From wind turbines and solar photovoltaics to grey water recycling and electric vehicles, technology is making it ever easier for us to be green –...