S2 Cities & Housing
by main topic: 35
Issues 10
- IssueAbsorption capacity, not supply or demand, is the binding constraint1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueApplying life-history method to cities undergoing technological change1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueBuilding codes rewritten for the climate a building will actually face1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueCities struggling with overcrowding, inequality, heat, pollution and congestion1 trends · 1 signals
- IssueInfrastructure: national strategies lock in access for decades1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueInfrastructure: productivity measured over the asset lifecycle1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueInfrastructure: where citizens experience state capacity directly1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueLife-In-A-Box1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueSmart city plans hinge on handling large volumes of data1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueSome cities are already shrinking in low fertility countries1 trends · 0 signals
Trends 3
Signals 22
- Signal15-Minute City Goes Mainstream — Obel Award 2026 / Canadian Cities Policy Adoption
- Signal43 cities projected above 10 million inhabitants
- SignalA Helsinki building designed so residents become friends
- SignalAustralia was the exception as real estate corrected nearly everywhere in 2025
- SignalCincinnati inspects bridges and roads with autonomous drones, compressing months into minutes
- SignalDelhi Moves to Give Every Property a Unique Aadhaar-Style Digital Identity
- SignalDelhi government to introduce Land Records Bill assigning digital 'Property Aadhaar' ID to every property
- SignalDetroit ran three wheelchair-accessible autonomous shuttles over 110 stops from 2024
- SignalEuropean Environment Agency cited for lower per capita energy and land use in cities
- SignalHousing absorption failing: 5.1 Canadian residents per new home against a 1.9 average
- SignalKey point cites metro, port and airport investment in Central Macedonia
- SignalLifestyle and sensory tools draw 48% interest; devices and smart environments 55%
- SignalMorocco Pilots Porous 'Sponge' Pavement to Cool Streets in Marrakech and Agadir
- SignalNairobi's Matatu System and the Future of African Transit — Urban Research
- SignalNew urban definition puts 76.5% of people in cities in 2015, against 54% previously
- SignalNine of ten future megacities expected in the developing world
- SignalPwC's separate healthy living research finds demand for health-friendly homes and at-home tracking
- SignalSeoul embeds pedestrian signals in the pavement
- SignalStuck in Traffic: Urban Mobility Dream vs Reality — Cars Still 70% of Miles
- SignalStudents housed inside an elderly care home in Kuopio
- SignalStudy finds LLMs can approximate aggregate housing-survey results but fail to preserve population structure
- SignalUS landlords leased more space to service tenants than to retailers in 2025
Objects with this as a secondary topic 43
- SignalA quarter of India's quick commerce spend comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns
- IssueAdoption hinges on codes and standards that mostly do not yet recognize the technology1 trends · 0 signals
- TrendAging populations push health systems from acute treatment toward prevention and function2 signals
- SignalAustralian households added over 180,000 home batteries in the second half of 2025
- IssueAutomation crosses into physical service work once machines undercut wages1 trends · 0 signals
- SignalCalifornia's Energy Code and China's Dual Carbon policy have written the technology into law
- SignalChina recorded the largest fall in wealth growth as investment, inflation, and property all slowed
- SignalChinese home prices falling for four and a half years and still accelerating
- SignalEquity produced 57% of new household wealth in 2025 against 15% from real estate
- SignalEquity was the largest source of wealth creation in nearly every major economy in 2025
- SignalFood output to double in four decades and water use up 30% by 2030
- SignalFrance and Germany lost wealth in 2025 once exchange rate effects are removed
- SignalGWI values wellness real estate at $548 billion and projects over $1 trillion by 2029
- SignalHousehold debt is back to early-2000s levels in the US and Europe
- SignalHousehold wealth growth accelerated to 7.3% in 2025 from a 5.9% long-run average
- SignalHouseholds hold 95% of all wealth, split about evenly between real and financial assets
- SignalJapan posted the largest wealth upswing, driven mostly by valuation gains after decades of near-zero inflation
- IssueKey point: rising seas and stronger storms on coastal areas1 trends · 1 signals
- SignalLatin American prison tuberculosis notification runs 29 times community rates
- SignalMaharashtra Governor Launches Month-Long Drive to Plant One Million Trees in Nagpur
- IssueMaterial demand may feed local conflict where mining meets farming and cities1 trends · 0 signals
- TrendMigration infrastructure8 signals
- SignalOnly 20% of 2025 wealth growth was real capital formation; drivers split by country
- IssuePaper wealth widens wealth inequality and raises the entry barrier to asset markets1 trends · 1 signals
- SignalPast PwC research finds older adults prefer to age at home if support exists
- SignalPeople with access to social infrastructure report close friends at 32% versus 9%
- SignalPer capita household wealth grew in most countries but lagged GDP
- IssuePopulation growth translates into food, housing, migration and resource pressure1 trends · 0 signals
- IssuePower without Limits1 trends · 0 signals
- TrendReal estate and private debt recalibrate toward 25-year GDP ratios, helped by inflation5 signals
- SignalRecord Heat Deaths Reignite German Debate Over Climate Adaptation Funding
- SignalRedirecting 1% of GDP to infrastructure or education raises output 1.5-6%
- SignalSea level rise of 3.4 millimetres a year cited for Greek exposure
- SignalSephora paid for rides to stores after a Q1 2025 US sales dip
- SignalSingle mothers forming shared households
- SignalSixty percent of US consumers put health and wellness first among home feature drivers
- TrendSocial connection is entering the design brief as physical infrastructure2 signals
- TrendTechnology 3: surfaces that cool below ambient temperature without electricity3 signals
- IssueTechnology decisions move to municipal, hospital and regional actors3 trends · 1 signals
- SignalThe 2023 US Surgeon General advisory is cited as what moved loneliness into design
- SignalUS power demand rising ~6% a year against eight-year interconnection queues
- SignalUSDA's $700 million Regenerative Pilot Program is read as federal alignment
- IssueWater demand rises exponentially while supply turns volatile4 trends · 1 signals