21.03.2016
Unjamming Nairobi
With its burgeoning economy and rapidly growing population, Nairobi has become notorious for its traffic jams. In one case, truck drivers entering the city were held up on a highway for three days. But no one faces a more challenging time on the roads than the 48% of locals who rely on their feet or bicycles to get around. Even though an estimated 15% of Nairobi’s residents use private cars as the......
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Nairobi
24.05.2015
Mega-Events Are a Disease
Pick a mega-event, and chances are you won't struggle to find something about it that went terribly, terribly wrong. Athens lost billions of euros on the 2004 summer games en route to an economic collapse. Sochi built an outrageous train line for the Winter Olympics that was barely running a year later. New York's much-hyped mass transit Super Bowl left some fans stranded for hours. Thousands of ......
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ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΙ ΑΓΩΝΕΣ, ΕΡΓΑ
07.04.2015
How the Danish Cooperated to Build a Bic...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Each weekday morning here, hundreds of commuters in the municipality of Furesø get on their bikes for the one-hour ride into Copenhagen. They can ride quite fast on the first stretch of trail, a straight path between quiet forest and noisy roads. Later, bikers pass blocks of drab council housing and a lake area with lots of geese before arriving in the bustle of the Danish c......
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Bicycle, Superhighway, Copenhagen
17.12.2014
The truth about smart cities: ‘In the en...
A woman drives to the outskirts of the city and steps directly on to a train; her electric car then drives itself off to park and recharge. A man has a heart attack in the street; the emergency services send a drone equipped with a defibrillator to arrive crucial minutes before an ambulance can. A family of flying maintenance robots lives atop an apartment block – able to autonomously repair crack......
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SMART CITIES, URBANISATION
13.12.2014
Can America's Desert Cities Adapt Before...
Los Angeles traffic is worse than usual as hordes of parched citizens evacuate a concrete tomb that once supported millions of lives. Savvy entrepreneurs are selling bottled water from wheeled coolers for $40 a piece. Windshields are caked with desert dust and cars are overheating. The city is nearly engulfed by wildfires. People swarm slowly moving cars after they abandon their own on the road, b......
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DESERT CITIES
05.11.2015
The long view of London
In 1616, Claes Visscher illustrated a wide angled panorama of London as viewed from the South Bank of the Thames. In Visscher’s wake, Wenceslas Holler later drafted another insight into 17th century London, constructing his own panorama 30 years later in 1647. Holler’s illustration, so named the Long View of London from Bankside, spanned from Pimlico to the docks beyond the old London Bridge. From......
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Housing, City politics
10.08.2015
The curtailing of London’s creative econ...
Two years after the introduction of Permitted Development Rights which allow employment space to be converted into housing through an easement of planning requirements, Zoe Green argues that the policy is threatening the local creative economy in London and other UK cities by pricing out start-ups and small and medium sized enterprises. For a major city to flourish, and to maintain its competitiv......
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Urban economics, Foreign investment, LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, London, Private Sector Governance, Property and real estate
30.04.2015
Smart cities and the plight of cultural ...
SMART CITIES: MEME OR PARADIGM SHIFT? The Dragon has met the Lion, with the partnership generating a predictable spectacle of showy infrastructure and corporate glitz. The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, a development designed for 350,000 residents and featuring malls, schools, and hospitals, has since 2007 attracted nearly US $400 million in private commercial investments, of which almost half ......
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Architecture and urban design, New cities and special projects, Foreign investment
30.04.2015
Urban housing policy can win the British...
Urban housing policy can win the British general election of 2015. British politicians are neglecting 18- to 24-year olds: the only housing policy announced by the Conservatives that specifically targets young people is cutting housing benefits for those under 21! According to polling firm ComRes, 69% of British young people think voting is an important part of being involved in society, and 47% o......
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City politics, National governance, Housing, Youth and education
08.04.2015
The Rebirth of Manhattan’s Downtown
By the end of 2014, the writers and editors of Condé Nast will finish moving into the publishing company’s new 1.25 million-square-foot (116,000 sq m) headquarters in lower Manhattan. “One World Trade Center is about to open,” says Larry Silverstein, chairman of Silverstein Properties Inc. That’s just the latest good news from that part of Manhattan, which is once again one of the most desirable ......
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DEVELOPMENT, Manhattan, Urban Land
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