Urban consumption is driving global emissions
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London – Consumption-based emissions from nearly 100 of the
world’s biggest cities represent 10 per cent of global greenhouse
gas emissions, according to new research from C40
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Top UK architects declare climate emergency
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London – Seventeen Stirling Prize winners, including Foster +
Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects, have released a declaration
calling on UK architects to create “architecture and urbanism
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UN-Habitat Assembly closes with commitment to addressing urban challenges
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Nairobi – The UN-Habitat Assembly ended with delegates passing
five resolutions on a range of topics, including safer cities,
implementing the New Urban Agenda, and improving urban-rural
linkages
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Driverless cars could lead to more congestion in cities
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Zurich – Driverless taxis and automated private vehicles could
result in more traffic on the roads, not less. This was the finding
of a simulation for the
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Greater Miami Area unveils urban resilience strategy
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Miami – Communities across the Greater Miami Area in southern
Florida have launched a collaborative urban resilience strategy
that addresses issues such as sea level rise, mobility
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Volkswagen signs onto smart city project in China
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Hefei – German automaker Volkswagen has signed an agreement to
test and develop smart mobility solutions in the Chinese megacity
of Hefei. The partnership will focus in
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Mixed support for Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto
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Toronto – A new poll shows that just over half of Toronto
residents support the Sidewalk Labs smart city project in Toronto.
The project has faced resistance
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Innovation in cities is focus of first UN-Habitat Assembly
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Nairobi – The first ever UN-Habitat Assembly opens in Nairobi
on Monday. Participants from all over the world will discuss urban
issues under the theme “Innovation for
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New ranking reveals world’s most climate-ambitious cities
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London – Environmental impact organisation CDP has released
its first-ever ranking on cities’ actions to cut emissions and set
climate strategies. Of the 596 cities ranked, 43
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Recycled concrete more robust than assumed
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Lucerne – Researchers at the Lucerne University of Applied
Sciences and Arts have investigated the load-bearing capacity of
recycled concrete made using discarded mixed granulate. They have
found
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Canton creates planning basis for Zurich Zoo cable car
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Zurich – The Canton of Zurich Building Department has
established the cantonal design plan for a cable car between the
Zurich Zoo and the Stettbach railway station
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Amsterdam to ban all gas and diesel cars
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Amsterdam – The city of Amsterdam will ban all gas and diesel
cars from its streets as of 2030. Public transport and taxis will
have to go
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Danish architecture firms raise the bar for upcycling building materials
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Copenhagen – Two Danish architecture firms have teamed up to
propose the world’s first upcycled high-rise building: CPH Common
House features over 17,500 tons of recycled waste
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New York to ban inefficient all-glass buildings
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New York – New York City aims to reduce its emissions by
nearly 30 per cent by 2030. One way it plans to achieve this
is
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Netzwerk Raumplanung takes stock
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Basel – The time limit for implementing the specifications of
the revised Federal Act on Spatial Planning ends on Tuesday.
Netzwerk Raumplanung takes stock after the five-year
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European mobility startups are improving our cities
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Brussels – Ten startups were named the winners of the 2019
European Startup Prize for Mobility. Over 570 startups entered into
the competition.
Now in...
ETH spin-off analyzes architecture
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Zurich – Zurich startup Archilyse has developed software for
the analysis of architecture. The spin-off from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) plans to
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Better urban planning key to protecting water resources
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Oxford - Rapid urbanisation is leading cities to divert water
from the countryside to quench the thirst of their growing urban
populations — and it is putting
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Federal Council clarifies freeze on land-use designations
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Bern - The Federal Council has decided to introduce a freeze
on land-use designations for five cantons: Zurich, Zug, Lucerne,
Geneva and Schwyz have failed to introduce
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UN-Habitat holds roundtable on floating cities
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New York - UN-Habitat convened a roundtable discussion on how
floating cities could help solve urban challenges such as climate
change and lack of affordable housing.
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