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- Northern Stockholm, Sweden, is the home to an unused green space with the potential to be converted into housing or recreational space. Järva Stadspark is a proposal to do both.[...]
- Soon, a section of Dubai will be transformed into an urban tech district. The creation of the Dubai Urban Tech District will create thousands of jobs in the tech and education industries while fostering a new generation of...
- Undergraduate students develop glow-in-the-dark concrete Sat, 25 Jun 22, 6:45amIn efforts to find solutions to world power problems, students at the America University in Cairo have developed glow-in-the-dark concrete as part of their graduation project...
- Sustainability is a top priority at this Texas office Sat, 9 Apr 22, 3:30amView, a leading creator of smart building technologies, announced its Smart Windows were installed at Uplands II. It is a 124,081-square-feet health and wellness office building in Austin, Texas. The recently completed Uplands...
- Seoul green city has food within a 10-minute walk anywhere Tue, 16 Nov 21, 4:30amHyundai Development Company hired UNStudio in 2019 to design a green, mixed-used neighborhood in Seoul, Korea, a 10-minute city for the new digital economy...
- Luca Curci Architects designs a zero-energy smart city of the future Tue, 12 May 20, 2:30amAccording to the United Nations, 5 billion people are projected to live in cities by 2030. In response to the growing challenge of urban populations and their accompanying carbon emissions, Italian design practice Luca Curci...
- Ecosistema Urbano designs a digitally integrated eco-campus for the University of Malaga Tue, 8 Oct 19, 2:30amThe University of Malaga in Spain will soon be home to a high-tech campus that will redefine the urban fabric with digital connectivity and renewable energy systems...
- How issues of microtransit, congestion and parking are closing in on cities Mon, 12 Nov 18, 3:10amEarlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walker’s article in The Atlantic arguing against the view that ridesharing and microtransit...
- The future of smart cities is up for grabs: Chips with Everything podcast Fri, 3 Aug 18, 9:00pmWhat happens when our smart toaster and smart fridge tech is scaled up to create entire smart cities – and what are the limits to this expansion?
- Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet | John Harris Tue, 17 Jul 18, 3:00pmThe energy used in our digital consumption is set to have a bigger impact on global warming than the entire aviation industry
- Panasonic is building an incredible smart city outside of Denver Tue, 9 Jan 18, 12:07amPanasonic is just about everywhere you look these days, from car batteries to airplanes, and now the company is building one of their most ambitious projects yet: an entire smart city...
- Sensors, plants and waste heat: Adelaide hospital's bid to be most energy-efficient Mon, 5 Jun 17, 9:19amWhen it finally opens in September, the complex will have the latest energy efficiency technology – but will it be worth the $2.3bn spent?
- Santa Fe enlists Rubicon Global to curb waste and ramp up recycling Sat, 18 Mar 17, 8:44amHumans, especially Americans, are kind of slobs. We mess up the Earth by throwing out about 4.5 pounds of garbage per person on average every day. Two-thirds of that waste could be composted, but isn’t. And half...
- Data is the secret weapon in the battle to save Australia's urban forests Mon, 30 May 16, 10:20amAs cities expand and trees are sacrificed for housing and infrastructure, the cost of losing green spaces grows
- Dementia patients calm down when they're not too hot and not too cold Fri, 6 May 16, 12:50pmNew research has shown the aged care provider Warrigal that sustainable design affects residents’ wellbeing, as well as its bottom line