The Economist

The Economist shows how world housing markets influence the world economy and launches new global house-price indices based on data for 13 developed economies nations and big cities.

Bill Price of the University of Houston is experimenting with translucent concrete and is aiming for fully transparent concrete.

The politics behind building a memorial at the site of the World Trade Center.

Britain's inner suburbs are paying for the success of inner city revitalization.

The impossibly-lofy "command and control" approach to environmentalism will never work. But the market can help.

Private housing associations with covenants, conditions and restrictions are setting the rules that many middle-class Americans have live by. What is the impact of the growth of planned communities on the nation? Should we be concerned?

Geography is being imposed on the Internet. What does this mean for cities?

Author and statistician Bjorn Lomborg argues that the fears of environmentalists about human activity destroying the planet are unfounded. He describes four major environmental fears and presents evidence to support his arguments.

Twelve chemicals, known as the "Dirty Dozen" present a grave threat to the environment. The Bush administration is supports an international effort to ban these chemicals.

The deforestation of the Amazonion rainforest has been an environmental and economic disaster. "Sustainable management" might be able to save the rainforest while yielding rich economic benefits.

What are the world's most expensive cities? The most expensive U.S. city only ranks seventh.

The failure of the U.N. climate talks at The Hague to reach a consensus on global warming makes further international action on global warming unlikely and may also worsen the problems the talks were intended to tackle.

Chances of a meaningful agreement at the U.N. summit on global climate change are slim.

Why the U.N. summit on global warming matters.

A new study investigates the "environmental, economic and social impacts of the world's 45,000 large dams."