Scottish Cities Alliance of Smart City projects, which is the collaboration of Scotland’s seven cities and the Scottish Government, aims to use Smart ...
Eviction of slum in the name of smart city development?
1,500 people have been evicted from Charan Khad, a slum in the Indian city of Dharamshala. According to the local municipality, the measures were ...
Examples of community-based energy production
In countries worldwide the number of community schemes for renewable energy production is growing. These groups of citizens vary in size and organization ...
The need to develop an age-friendly city
People around the world are living longer and thereby the requirements for their surrounding environment change. City planners have to take the demographic ...
The latest co-living experience for urban nomads
The Jo & Joe venues developed by the Accor Hotel group and the design studio Penson introduce a new way of housing for urban nomads. Different shared ...
Wird es eine europäische Charta für digitale Grundrechte geben?
Anfang nächster Woche soll dem Europäische Parlament der Entwurf einer Europäische Charta der digitalen Grundrechte vorgelegt werden. Das Dokument, ...
New Zealand’s resilience challenges from earthquakes
New Zealand is regularly hit by earthquakes and the consequent damages are not just environmental and human. Also damages in infrastructure can mean a loss ...
How to expose poor conditions in fashion industry by DNA
The fast fashion industry has been hitting the news with its poor working conditions, child and slave work. In order to make the supply chain more ...
Majority of people prefers living in compact cities
According to a recent poll by Energy Visions 69,1 per cent of voters prefer living in a compact city like Singapore. They were voted more attractive places ...
Data profiles to determine access to services in China?
The Chinese government rolled out a plan to create data profiles of all social and financial activity of Chinese citizens. Based on these information, ...
