A recent study has offered new knowledge that might help local governments design buildings, streets and city blocks to enhance peoples’ comfort while ...
Google upgrades Street View cameras for advanced mapping
Google’s Street View car cameras have received the first major design upgrade in eight years, and started patrolling streets last month. Eight years ...
Florence shows how to be safe but still look inviting
Florence, Italy, wants to prioritize public safety without turning the design of public spaces too militant. In many cities in Europe hit by terrorist ...
MIT’s Solve competition fights food & water challenges
The Solve competition, a contest organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), wants to promote cost-efficient food production closer to ...
Deutscher Nachbarschaftspreis 2017: drei Bundessieger stehen fest
Der erste Deutsche Nachbarschaftspreis, der gestern Abend in Berlin verliehen und von der nebenan.de-Stiftung ausgeschrieben wurde, hat drei Bundessieger ...
Green buildings benefit health of people who work there
A study by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and the National University of Singapore has found that occupants of green buildings are ...
Open-source platform fosters participative democracy in Barcelona
Decidim, an open- source platform for participatory democracy is a sign of digital but also social transformation. The platform functions as a database ...
Copenhagen & Vancouver share why sustainability measures are worth it
At a conference on green buildings in Singapore, executives from the local governments of Copenhagen und Vancouver shared how going more sustainable and ...
Google maps wheelchair accessibility more thoroughly
Google is planning to crowdsource data from 30 million Local Guides globally to make their maps tool more useful to people with mobility challenges. The ...
Coastal cities like Houston can & should learn from others
The first impulse after natural disasters like the recent hurricanes is to rebuild what once was, but especially in coastal cities such as Houston, that ...
