According to the American Psychiatric Association, the mental health of city dwellers is can be linked to the design and configuration of the urban ...
Can we actually agree on indicators to measure urban development?
By the end of this year, the world’s governments will have agreed on a number of frameworks aiming to guide urban development such as the New Urban ...
How Copenhagen is getting healthier
Copenhagen, already one of the world’s greenest and most liveable cities, has aggressive targets such as becoming the first carbon-neutral capital ...
Smart City: Between real inventions and high-performance gadgets
The takeoff of the “smart city” concept has introduced a vast amount of innovations and inventions to our cities. L’Atelier outlines the ...
How Bristol is leading the UK in smart city development
Bristol is a small city in the south-western region of the United Kingdom and leading the country in smart city development. But what actually makes ...
Smart Cities: Engaging citizens or just managing them?
Plenty of smart city projects were presented at the Smart City InFocus conference in Yinchuan, China, a couple of weeks ago. With all their differences, ...
How Europe’s refugee crisis stirs creative housing concepts
When the first wave of refugees hit Europe in 2015, many cities started quickly building simple shelters as temporary places to live. But as the influx of ...
Tactical urbanism: Empowering citizens to build better cities
Tactical urbanism, a term that has become quite popular in the area of city planning, describes small and quick experiments which are aimed at making ...
The Urban Europe 2016 report – in pictures
Eurostat’s Urban Europe 2016 report contains a vast array of statistics that indicate how residents of the EU’s biggest cities feel about where ...
Cities should tap students to get smarter
Cities today are increasingly under pressure to work smarter but often lack the financial resources to develop concepts to work more efficiently. ...
