European experts work towards more age-friendly cities
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Brussels – The European Commission has launched an urban
planning initiative to develop concepts for more age-friendly
cities. Known as URBANAGE, it is using simulation technology to
make
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Swisstopo data now accessible free of charge
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Bern – The digital data and services of the Swiss Federal
Agency of Topography, also known as swisstopo, were made available
online free of charge on March
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Cities improve street safety by turning concrete into art
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New York - Up to 20 cities in the United States could each
receive 25,000 US dollars in grant funding to use art and design to
improve
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Greater Manchester makes neighbourhoods more active
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Manchester – As part of a 10-year plan for Greater Manchester
to deliver the UK’s largest interconnected cycling and walking
network, work has started on the Active
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Work starts on smart city near Mount Fuji
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Nagoya – Toyota has started building a smart city at the foot
of Mount Fuji. The so-called Woven City will be a testing ground
for new technologies
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Zurich tracks local heat stress
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Zurich – Levels of heat vary locally across cities and
regions. The canton of Zurich is now using an online map to show
which local streets and
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Green spaces key as urban temperatures projected to climb 4°C by 2100
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Geneva - In cities around the world, temperatures could rise
by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change
scenario, recent research warns. Green spaces
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European smart cities programme reaches 250-million-euro milestone
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London – London and five European partner cities have
triggered a milestone investment of 250 million euros in smart
technologies. The cities are part of the Sharing
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Zurich and Singapore research big cities
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Zurich/Singapore – The ETH Zurich and three Singapore
universities are researching sustainable development strategies for
cities and their surrounding regions. Current projects are looking
at green buildings, new
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New law supports mobility pricing pilot projects
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Bern – Pilot projects for mobility pricing could receive legal
backing and financial support from the Federal Council. A
corresponding law is now entering the consultation process.
Responsibility
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Saudia Arabia plans smart eco-city
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Riad – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has
announced plans for a linear smart eco-city in the desert. The Line
will be home to one
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Swiss cities get smarter
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Winterthur – More than 40 Swiss cities are already actively
engaged with the smart cities concept, according to a report by the
ZHAW. Most projects focus on
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Global initiative challenges urban imbalances to shape sustainable cities
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Davos - Over half of the world’s population lives in cities,
which are responsible for 75% of global carbon emissions. A new
global initiative is now seeking
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Copenhagen develops mixed-use district in former prison
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Copenhagen – A former prison site in Copenhagen is taking on
new life as a mixed-use district with green spaces, urban villas
and community hubs. The aim
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Inhabited footbridge drives urban connections in Paris
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Paris – Urban connections in Paris could be restored by an
inhabited garden footbridge between the 12th and 13th
arrondissements. The so-called Green Line across the Seine
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Bluefactory to implement innovative energy and water concept
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Freiburg – The blueFACTORY innovation district in Freiburg is
implementing an innovative water and energy concept in conjunction
with Groupe E and SINEF AG. This project will
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Green spaces counteract stress caused by urban noise pollution
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Dübendorf ZH – People who can see the greenery of an urban
park or a mountain range on the horizon are less sensitive to the
noise created
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Cities are key to India's post-pandemic growth
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Geneva – The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges in
India’s cities, but lessons learned could help improve urban
imbalances, says the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a
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Virtual city shows how 10 billion people could live in one metropolis
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Melbourne – Ten billion people could live in a giant
sustainable city built on just 0.02 per cent of the earth’s
surface. This is the vision depicted
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UN-Habitat making cities more resilient
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Nairobi - UN-Habitat has launched the City Project Team. This
aims to facilitate the introduction of measures to make African
cities more resilient against the impact of
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