Conventionally, designing a city is done in 3 ways. However, with the changing climate crisis many countries are facing, how should designers adjust their techniques to fit this new era? Find out how in this article.
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Liveable Cities Rankings: How a Global Enterprise in Influencing Urban Change
The question, then, is how to improve the measurements used, to ensure that the rankings align with the public interest, and help those in positions of leadership – such as lawmakers, local governments and urban planners – to better understand the huge array of data they have access to.
Project Highlight: Marina Bay Sands Hotel
For the control of the curtain tracks’ automation at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, it was decided to rely on Nice and to use the award-winning NiceWay modular transmitters.
Urban Rooms: Where People Get to Design their City's Future
That’s where “urban rooms” come in – they’re an important building block in making a city vision “real” for the people who live there.
Smart cities aim to make urban life more efficient – but for citizens’ sake they need to slow down
All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing information, with urban infrastructure, to create smart cities.
Living 'Liveable': This is What Residents Have to Say About Life on the Urban Fringe
This article explores their reasons for living where they do and recounts their experiences of life in the outer suburbs.
Cities That Never Sleep: How the Modern World Blurs the Boundaries Between Night and Day
Since the industrial revolution we’ve found ways to adapt our homes and cities to operate during the night. But as our conquest of the dark continues, the border between night and day is becoming increasingly blurry.
Urban Planning in 3D: How Creating a Digital Twin Leads to Smarter Cities
The Rennes Metropole planning team uses the 3D virtual twin to envision the potential growth of the region.
Community pool projects show how citizens are helping to build cities
The building of a pool can be part of a larger project of building new civic institutions and networks that fall somewhere between market, state and civil society.
How Cities Work Around Parking Spaces
We demand convenient parking everywhere we go, and then learn not to see the vast, unsightly spaces that result.
How to make smart cities human again
Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. This information can be used by city leaders to create policies, with the aim of making cities “smarter” and more sustainable, but the data only tells half the story.