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The Impact of 3D Printing on City Sustainability

June 19, 2013 by Renée van Staveren
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3D Printed City

 

Although 3D printing has been used for a few years, thoughts about its implications for economies and cities hadn’t crossed my mind until recently. This occurred when I was introduced to the concept of printing guns at home.[read more]

Green Building Efforts Should Focus on Regulation, Financing

June 19, 2013 by Glenn Meyers
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In the United States, buildings account for 41 percent of primary energy consumption. Tackling rising energy consumption in U.S. buildings will require a more coordinated and coherent approach[read more]

Public Art on the Public Transit Systems of Lagos

June 18, 2013 by Future Cape Town
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Public Transit in Lagos

Bus Rapid Transit systems is a ‘transport system’ that is rapidly being adopted by many governments and cities around to world to solve commuting and human movement problems within their cities.[read more]

Urbanism and the Most Influential Architect You've Probably Never Heard Of

June 18, 2013 by Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
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City Architecture and Humanity

A documentary has been making the rounds recently in urban circles featuring perhaps the most influential architect you’ve (probably) never heard of, Jan Gehl, aptly called The Human Scale.[read more]

Planning Smarter Cities: Developing District Energy

June 18, 2013 by Travis Sheehan
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District energy systems/shutterstock

District energy planning embodies a paradigm shift in urban planning which includes utility services as a component of community development. As district energy is reimagined in the city planning process, new models of development, governance, and financing are being considered for these systems.[read more]

Urban Design, Intelligent Vehicles, and Automated Highways

June 18, 2013 by Kaid Benfield
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Public Transit of the Future?

The promise of a fully automated highway network has captivated the imaginations of futurists and aspirational engineers for several generations. In these visions there is a wide range of so-called “intelligent vehicle systems."[read more]

The Importance of Park Land Preservation in Urban Sustainability

June 18, 2013 by Global Site Plans - The Grid
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Urban Parks

The Trust for Public Land Park Score index ranked the “City of Lakes” Minneapolis, Minnesota as the #1 Park System in the nation, with New York, NY coming in second.[read more]

Public Transit: Can Britain Catch Up to Dutch Biking?

June 18, 2013 by Mark K Ames
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Dutch City Biking

On the 4th March 2013, Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor of London's Cycling Commissioner, stated that "it took 40 years to turn Amsterdam in to Amsterdam". But it will take even longer to turn London in to a cycling nirvana.[read more]

Urban Design and the Well-Edited Home

June 17, 2013 by Kate Gallery
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Home Design

Maybe painters see their living space as a canvas and actors picture it as a stage. The writer in me views home as a massive editing project.[read more]

How to Be Green With Solar Energy

June 17, 2013 by Glenn Meyers
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Solar Home

A Reddit thread once asked what would humanity do if they had an unlimited source of renewable energy. With tongue only partly in cheek, I responded that such energy existed already.[read more]

Urban Wildlife: Partners or Nuisances?

June 17, 2013 by The Nature of Cities
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Urban Wildlife

There are a lot of reasons that we should support urban biodiversity. On the utilitarian side, these organisms provide ecosystem services like photosynthesis, decomposition, control of pests, and the processing of air and water pollution.[read more]

The Urbanism of the Turkish Uprisings

June 17, 2013 by Polis Inclusive
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Urbanism in Turkey

As events unfold in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, there is a tendency for the urban issues that sparked the uprising to fade into the background.[read more]

Germany's Demographic Bust

June 17, 2013 by Jim Russell
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German Demographics

Germany is dying. Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. Concerning demographic decline, only Japan ranks worse. The population is shrinking. German companies need talent. Forty years of importing labor: the demographics have changed dramatically over that time span.[read more]