The article is an excerpt of Michael Berkowitz’s, president of 100 Resilient Cities, plenary speech at the Habitat III Conference. In his speech he ...
How the Repair Café fixes more than broken things
In 2013, Peter Skinner found the Repair Café in Palo Alto (USA) which adopts the idea of a grassroot movement from the Netherlands: bringing people ...
Solar panels on sidewalks
Solar Roadways, a company in Idaho, recently reveiled an new product: solar panels that can be installed on sidewalks. With the support of federal highway ...
How big data could transform recruitment
Ms. Cynthia Tan is a pioneer in people analytics in Asia. Three years ago she started an initiative at the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited ( ...
Neighborhood Hotspot for urban development in Nigeria
Makoko Neighborhood Hotspot provides urban services and works as a business incubator promoting renewable energy and biogas linked community toilets. ...
Good architecture for Kolkata
Nearly 100 smart cities are developed in India at the moment. Newton, a city just outside Kolkata, is one of them. Equipped with a wifi zone, smart LED ...
Victory for San Francisco’s cycling advocates
A group of anonymous cycling advocates set up a number of provisional safe-cycling interventions in San Francisco. The city decided now to keep one of the ...
How will citizens respond to smart cities?
Seven members of Forbes Technology Council offer their insights. Forbes …
The nostalgia of Soviet era bus stops
In a seven-year project Peter Ortner, a photographer from Nuremberg, took photographs of bus stops from the Soviet era. He published them as part of a new ...
Mayor of Bogotá demands cities have to change
In his visionary interview Enrique Peñalosa, the mayor of Bogotá, claims that cities around the world should be made for people and not for cars. Cities ...
