Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
Proposing pathways to what they call urban heat justice, Anguelovski et al. argue that heat adaptation strategies must account for historic drivers of environmental injustice, including historically exclusionary urban planning practices, particularly around housing, and new manifestations of environmental injustice such as heat gentrification.
Seeking a simple, consistent and rigorous definition of ‘urbanness’ that can be applied across spatial and temporal scales, Fox and Wolf argue for a geo-demographic measure based on population concentration and the distance required to reach a population threshold, rather than a definition relying on fixed boundaries or level of development.
Rusca et al. propose the plural climate storylines framework to build on the narrative element of physical climate storylines with methods that emphasize power asymmetries, decoloniality, co-production and desired futures. The goal of pluralizing climate storylines is to promote just, equitable development interventions.
Cities worldwide are grappling with the rise of remote work, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. This Perspective argues that research on remote work is siloed and suggests a coherent approach for interdisciplinary engagement to improve evidence-based policy.
How to delineate a city becomes more challenging the more we learn. This Perspective argues for using cell-phone data as a standard because they are information rich and geographically expansive and because they illuminate both people’s concentrations in given areas and flows among them.
