To improve housing affordability, ‘the future is concrete’

The Sam Fox School’s Pablo Moyano Fernández writes about the advantages of concrete for single-family home construction. Though wood still dominates the U.S. market, Moyano and WashU architecture and engineering students have explored concrete housing through models, prototypes and design competition entries.

War, politics and religion shape wildlife evolution in cities

Cultures differ around the world, meaning each city has its own set of variables that shape the evolutionary processes of wildlife. Understanding how these human cultural practices shape evolutionary patterns will allow people to better design cities that support both humans and the wildlife that call these places home, writes Elizabeth Carlen.
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