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The Challenge of Creating Accessible Cities: Our Next #citytalk
Cities are rightly celebrated for being diverse areas where people of different abilities and cultures can co-exist. However, creating accessible cities through spaces and experiences for residents and...
View ArticleWhy Walking has Gone for a Long Walk in Indian Cities
The hierarchy of mobility needs is a concept similar to that of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – a psychological theory of fundamental human needs. To understand how a hierarchy of needs may work from a...
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Singapore Superpark Brings Green Technologies and Biological Diversity to the...
By Suchi Rudra at Green Futures Singapore has raised the bar on green space by integrating innovative green technologies and biological diversity on a massive scale with its recently opened Gardens by...
View ArticlePlanning Sustainable Cities: Eight Experts Share their Views
Last month, we attended the opening of The Crystal – an urban sustainability centre run by Siemens in east London. The event lasted a few days (sustainable cities folks sure know how to celebrate) and...
View ArticleUrban Change in Iran: Myth vs. Reality in the Persian City
Regions and countries around the world are usually associated with elements that are deeply rooted in society’s psyche. Similar happens to cities where they are too associated with a single symbol,...
View ArticleUrban Change in Iran: Two Millennia of Urban Planning
Iran is known as one of the oldest civilisations in the world, and many of the origins of urban planning and design can be traced back the country. The Persian built environment has been a major...
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Beyond Sandy: How Climate Change Has Affected Cities Worldwide
In the final days of October, the world gaped in horror at the images of the devastation left by hurricane Sandy. Perhaps the most attention-grabbing were the photos taken of New York: the Manhattan...
View ArticleApocalypse Urbanism: #citytalk Explores a Worst-Case Scenario for Cities
What to do when shops close in cities as a result of economic challenges? Find a new way to fill them. What about dealing with inadequate municipal governments? Engage citizens to provide the services...
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Cities Without Borders
It is said that when Romulus and Remus began the process of founding the ancient city of Rome, they first delineated the pomerium, the sacred boundary of the city. Using a heavy plow, they would press...
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Urban Change in Iran: Hong Kong, Dubai and the Strait of Hormuz
Hong Kong owes much of its current status as a post of free market trade in the Asia Pacific region to its previous ‘owners’: the British. This beacon of capitalism was during much of the 20th Century...
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Re-engineering Cities for Flood Resilience
By Peter Madden – Chief Executive of Forum for the Future. In the last couple of years, communities across the world have experienced devastating floods. As the threat of flooding becomes even more...
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How Romania’s Five Biggest Cities are Moving in the Green Direction
After joining the European Union back in 2007, the word “sustainability” started to be heard more frequently in Romania. New opportunities for people to explore and learn from Western countries were...
View ArticleActive Streets in India’s Dharavi Slum
Last week, before I left for Mumbai to speak at the next stop of the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s 6-year tour of 9 cities, I visited a new ‘master-planned community’ on Brisbane’s north side. The houses...
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The Berg River: Reconnecting the Urban Fabric of Paarl
With a population of 190,000, Paarl is the largest urban entity in South Africa’s Winelands district. It is blessed with tremendous historic assets and serves as a touristic focal-point for the...
View ArticleManchester: United Behind a Sustainability Goal
By Emilie Beauchamp at Green Futures Will Manchester – former capital of the global cotton trade, birthplace of the industrial revolution, and home to the first modern computer – be renowned in the...
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Flooding in La Plata, Argentina: A Wake Up Call
I’m in La Plata, the enigmatic capital city of Argentina’s largest province, about an hour’s train ride south of Buenos Aires. Seven days before my visit, a massive flood swept through here, killing...
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Infographic: Saving the Earth with Sustainable Cities
If you’re after some ideas for sustainable cities, we’d like to think that our archive of content is a good place to spend a few hours. But if you’re after a more digestible snapshot, this...
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Rethinking Cities: Sustainable Street Design and #citytalk
I’m very pleased to be partnering with London-based charity 3Space on their fantastic upcoming event Re:THINK. From May 1st-3rd, 3Space’s Blackfriars HQ will be transformed into an “interactive...
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The DIY Disaster Plan
This post is an excerpt from a special long-form report recently published by our friends at Next City. It is part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues, a year-long collaboration...
View ArticleInfographic: Cities Embracing the Green Revolution
Could a 'green revolution' in cities be the solution to rising CO2 levels? This new infographic provides an interesting view of sustainability in New York, Vancouver, Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam and...
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