Amsterdam: The Smart City

Amsterdam: The Smart City

(image coutesy of: divagacoesdeumleigo.blogspot.com) As we now enter the urban age the challenges of the city change, grwoing populations, increased CO2 emmsions and simply naviagting…

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roof gardens and green space in urban environments

roof gardens and green space in urban environments

It’s common knowledge that trees and plants benefit our environment in terms of CO2 emissions but they can also provide added benefits to built up…

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A solar panelled future

A solar panelled future

Solar panels have long been criticised as an expensive unviable energy source. But Blackfriars Bridge in London has had a solar facelift and is now…

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Seeds sought to sow a new city

Seeds sought to sow a new city

This year’s Wolfson Economics Prize is inviting entrants to consider how they could deliver a new Garden City, which is visionary, economically viable, and popular. …

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Public Health and the Great Green Uplift of our Urban Ecosystem

Public Health and the Great Green Uplift of our Urban Ecosystem

‘Would you favour schemes which maintain, improve, enhance and increase green space and waterways in and around Manchester?’ Ask most people in Manchester this question…

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Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

by Francis Glare, Manchester Studio Director  Sustainable place-making In Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’, the charred and apparently hopelessly denuded landscape is the setting…

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Castlefield Viaduct Manchester

Greening the City

by Darrell Wilson The idea of ‘greening the city’ has become synonymous with initiatives that increase and enhance the quality and content of nature and…

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Sabah Al Ahmad City, Cultural Centre, Kuwait

A Cultural Heart

by Richard McDowell It could be said that one way of assessing a society’s degree of civilisation is the extent to which it invests in…

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Blackburn Meadows

Lessons from the Moai

by Steve Merridew Our cities are our future. By 2030 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas.(ref 1) Global economic growth and…

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Nanjing Road, Shanghai /BDP

It’s not what you buy, but the way that you buy it…

by Tessa O’Neill  The dynamic retail sector is going through its most significant period of transition in a century. The current global financial crisis is…

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