According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits. In the attached map, you can see the most air-polluted major cities in the world. Read more in Visual…
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A report by Oxford Economics forecasts the top 10 cities by measures of economic size, population, and GDP growth rate. Read more in Visual Capitalist The World’s Top 10 Cities in 2035 By Iman Ghosh was last modified: August 16th,…
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How cities are reshaping streets to prepare for life after lockdown By Adele Peters
17 May 2020Views: 546Milan is beginning to transform 22 miles of local streets, adding temporary bike lanes and wider sidewalks, and lowering the speed limit. In Berlin, some parking spots have also become pop-up bike lanes. Paris is fast-tracking long-distance bike lanes that…
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To track the pro-cycling efforts and initiatives taken by cities around the world, we present the Copenhagenize Index, a comprehensive and holistic ranking of the world’s most bicycle-friendly cities Read more in wired The 20 most Bike Friendly cities on…
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Solving the Cooperation Paradox in Urban Mobility By Joël Hazan , Martin Reeves , and Pierre-François Marteau
3 January 2019Views: 1,234Traditional approaches to solving mobility problems—adding roads and transit lines—are not sustainable, primarily because of concerns related to climate change, public health, and funding. Hence the interest in new technology-powered forms of mobility: ride sharing, free-floating bikes, autonomous electric vehicles,…
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The Near-Term Future of Democracy and Civic Innovation By Dylan Hendricks
9 June 2017Views: 1,369If there’s one lesson from 2016 that we should take with us as a starting point, it’s that our current governance structures are no longer serving us. Positioned awkwardly between our planet-scale problems and our people-scaled ones, nation states find…
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The main thrust of the pedestrianization movement is that we need to re-think urban planning, and start designing cities for people, not cars. Proponents of pedestrianization say that fewer cars would mean less stress and more effective use of people’s…
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New York’s worst natural disaster in recent memory—Superstorm Sandy—struck during the Bloomberg administration, spurring the city not only to use data more aggressively but also to improve the quality of those data Read more in labcities The Fourth Urban Revolution…
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When it comes to new forms of shared-use mobility – including bikesharing, carsharing and ridehailing – no one stands to benefit more than our nation’s cities.” learn more in labcities Cities Of The Future And Shared Mobility By Labcities was…
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The project will reconnect many neighborhoods long divided by the highway, creating beautiful, natural space from unused parts of the city. learn more in fastcoexist A Huge Park In Toronto In The Forgotten Space Under A Highway By Adele Peters…
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