Teenagers are riding BMX bikes while learning life skills and dealing with mental health challenges due, in part, to the covid lockdowns.

How an unusual ritual led to fewer child marriages, less flooding, a boom in girls’ education — and a cultural transformation in India.

With fewer internet shutdowns, Kashmiri women and entrepreneurs have launched online businesses and turned content creators.

Von November 8, voters in the US states of Maryland and Missouri passed referendums to legalise recreational marijuana.

It’s crunch time for many of Britain’s post-war housing estates. Could co-design provide a model for delivering regeneration at scale?

Campuses and libraries across the US are increasingly adding bikes to what you can borrow, increasing access to cycling along the way.

Being friendly with your neighbours has huge social benefits, and getting started can be as easy as a casual wave hello.

Volunteers run a mini-van to transport residents to keep them living longer in the bush.

Inspired by his own experience, a chef offers ex-prisoners help to get back on their feet.

From dumpsite to baby shower venue: green spaces are sprouting up within Nairobi’s many landfills.

The Spanish city of Pontevedra banned cars decades before most cities started to think about reclaiming streets for pedestrians.

On Dutch ‘care farms’ people with dementia can tend to livestock, harvest vegetables and make their own decisions.

A British artist paints the facades of some of her city’s rundown and neglected houses, transforming them into a rainbow of colours.

For 12 hours a day, prisoners can let themselves out to work or visit family. In virtually every case, they come back.

The 2019–2020 bushfires saw the koala declared as endangered across most of eastern Australia. Now, cultural burns may help save them.

Two single mums raising their children together in a four-unit home have now bought another building to expand housing choices for women.

Co-op builder in Illinois, USA, sees granny flats as one way to achieve more affordable housing.

People offer bikes, money and support to a group of mums on Elcho Island in Australia’s remote north riding bicycles each night to get fit.

After eighteen months of isolation due the COVID lockdowns, Talk the Walk is bringing people together while exploring London on foot.

Paris has just opened 96 affordable apartments offering world-class views in one the its priciest neighbourhoods for about US$500 a month.