Charles Montgomery and Omar Doinguez of Happy City, a Vancouver-based organisation focusing on urban development, both believe that the design of urban ...
Can Asian cities lead the way to a more sustainable future?
Asia’s rapid urbanization is boosting its economy but at the same time contributing to negative externalities such as traffic congestion, pollution ...
What’s Europe’s smartest city and why?
A fundamental set of questions surrounds the concept of a smart city: What are the components of a smart city? What metrics are used to judge the progress ...
Nach Brexit-Votum: Frankfurt wittert Chance
Nachdem die Briten beschlossen haben, aus der Europäischen Union auszutreten, wittert die Stadt Frankfurt ihre Chance: Zu gerne würde sie die Brexit-Flü ...
Google takes big data to smart cities
Google believes that congestion in cities is mainly caused by motorists driving around looking for parking spots. Solving the parking problem in urban ...
Monitoring the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
The New Urban Agenda, a global framework aiming to guide sustainable urbanization over the next20 years, will be finalized in October. As soon as the ...
First step in achieving SDGs: Make people aware of them
An important first step in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals for municipalities is to raise awareness for them. The city of Utrecht, ...
Izmir drives smart city development in Turkey
One of the oldest port cities of the world, Izmir, is driving smart city development in Turkey: Thanks to a centralised municipal management of utilities ...
The big power of data in small cities
The use of big data is often thought to require a large amount of resources which only big cities can draw on. But a look at the data-driven management ...
Glasgow launches UK’s first city resilience strategy
The city of Glasgow, Scotland, has launched its resilience strategy which contains almost 50 different actions aimed at creating a stronger and more ...
