Urban planning should focus on children, says Unicef
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New York City – The UN’s children’s rights agency has
published a new handbook that provides strategies on how to create
cities where children live in healthy,
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Tech could revolutionize transport for low-income communities in urban Africa
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Geneva – Peer-to-peer communication between commuters has the
potential to revolutionize the transport sector for low-income
urban communities across Africa, providing historically
disadvantaged communities with safer and shorter
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Platform helps with energy-efficient renovations
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Lucerne – Researchers at the Lucerne University of Applied
Sciences and Arts have developed a platform for energy-efficient
renovations that help laypersons and experts alike find the
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Langenthal wins Swiss heritage award
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Langenthal BE – The town of Langenthal in the canton of Bern
has been awarded the 2019 Wakker Prize for its outstanding
architectural preservation. The Swiss Heritage
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Urban stormwater: the untapped resource
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Berkeley – Cities around the world are facing shortages of
drinking water, and the problem is only expected to worsen with
climate change and prolonged dry spells.
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Karachi tackles transport pollution with cow dung
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Islamabad – Karachi is launching a Green Bus Rapid Transport
(BRT) network that will introduce buses running on bio-methane made
from cow dung. The project is receiving
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Algae cladding system captures CO2 from the air
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London – Photo.Synth.Etica has developed an algae-powered
building cladding system that captures and stores carbon dioxide
molecules and air pollutants. In another project, it extends the
benefits of
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Five cities win urban innovation awards in Guangzhou
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Guangzhou – Guadalajara, Mezitli, Milan, New York City and
Wuhan are the winners of this year’s Guangzhou International Award
for Urban Innovation. The awards emphasize the importance
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Zurich’s central university district receives key approval
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Bern – The Federal Council has approved the adjustment of the
cantonal structural plan for the Zurich central university
district, bringing the university district in the heart
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Progress in curbing concrete’s CO2
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Leighton Buzzard, UK – An international consortium of
manufacturers, technology experts, financiers and energy companies
are making headway in reducing carbon emission from cement and
concrete production, a
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Buildings sector holds major potential to reduce emissions
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Katowice – A new report by the Global Alliance for Buildings
and Construction sees huge untapped potential to reduce emissions
in the global buildings and construction sector.
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Digital technology is key to sustainable urban planning
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Lausanne – Digital technology can help urban planners make
their processes more efficient and allow them to better serve city
residents, according to a thesis from École
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Children should be focus of urban planning, says UNICEF
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London – A new UNICEF report has found that millions of poor
urban children are worse off than their rural peers, overturning
popular assumptions about global urbanization.
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Bamboo modular unit wins future cities competition
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Manila – A modular housing project made of bamboo that
captures rainwater, reduces heat gain and prevents flooding has won
an international design competition.
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Cities of the future require a ‘planning revolution’
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Nairobi – Building codes, urban transport and waste management
must be ‘reimagined’ if the world is to put urbanization on a more
environmentally sustainable and socially just
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Singapore named Smart City of 2018
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Barcelona – Singapore has been named Smart City of 2018 at the
Smart City Expo World Congress for its Smart Nation project, which
seeks to transform the
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Technology alone cannot stop urban heat effect
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Guelph – New research reveals that many of today’s urban
design solutions meant to keep cities cool will do little to stop
temperatures from rising at night
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Biosphera Equilibrium on display at Umwelt Arena
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Spreitenbach AG – The Biosphera Equilibrium building module is
on display at the Umwelt Arena until the end of November as part of
a temporary exhibition. With
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Desert cities are more than a mirage
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New York - The world cannot seem to resist the urge to build
cities from scratch, writes Monte Reel. While many such plans are
overly ambitious, expensive
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Chinese cities move up in global competitiveness ranking
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Nairobi – Chinese cities have entered the top ten ranking of
global competitiveness for the first time, according to a new
report. This strong performance suggests that
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