At a time when urban India is struggling to deal with flooding after every spell of rainfall, replacing sidewalks with permeable blocks could be an idea whose time has come. Urban planners and ...

Scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have just completed a year long study to discover that giving pavement blocks a special air purifying coating can reduce the ...

University of Tokyo associate professor Kei Ito is seen with textured paving blocks in new "cool" and "warm" colors, in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Dec. 22, 2017. (Mainichi) A research team at the ...