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Mexico City

One photo, every eight steps, the camera pointed straight ahead. The formula is simple, but the results reveal a lot about the way we perceive urban streetscapes.[read more]

traffic in Mexico City

The trend of selling cheap, non-fuel-efficient, and often unsafe vehicles to less-developed neighbors, at often-inflated prices, is a growing challenge in developing nations.[read more]

renewing urban spaces

Can cities with decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years of history adapt to economic, population, and climate change? Can they renew themselves in the process?[read more]

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These cities have presented challenges in areas such as mobility, economic development, social inclusion, health & wellbeing, urban management, lighting, energy, culture, future government and sustainable lifestyles. Companies, entrepreneurs, innovators, consortia, research centers, organizations and experts are all invited to take part by submitting ideas that solve the city’s listed challenge.[read more]

In Mexico City, something big is taking shape: an urban park encompassing 14,388 hectares (around 35,000 acres) known as the Texcoco Lake Ecological Park (PELT, by its Spanish acronym). To put that into perspective for you, that’s an area around 41 times the size of New York City’s Central Park, and around 34 times the size of Golden...[read more]

During the last decades, the conurbation problem in large cities has increased, reaching alarming levels. According to the information published in the 2010 Living Planet Report, 3,500 million people live in urban areas and estimations say that for the year 2050 this number will duplicate to almost 6,300 million people.In the case...[read more]

Last year, IBM announced its Commuter Pain Index. Only Beijing tied Mexico City as the city where commuters suffer the most. Both cities got 99 out of 100 pain points. The index comprises several issues, including commuting time, time in traffic, worsening of traffic, stress, anger, and how traffic affects decisions to leave home. So,...[read more]

Around mid-century, William S. Burroughs said that Mexico City was “sinister and gloomy and chaotic, with the special chaos of a dream.” The city has grown more than five-fold since Burroughs uttered this caricature, incubating a surreal aestheticism as distinct as other world megacities such as New York or Shanghai. Reductionist...[read more]

This post was originally published in Portuegese on TheCityFix Brasil on June 8, 2011. Mexico City. Photo by Matthew Winterburn. About 7,000 people die per year in the state of Sao Paulo due to  air pollution, according Paulo Saldiva, doctor, professor and expert of Environmental Pollution. The number scares and draws...[read more]

When governments don’t build infrastructure, citizens usually complain, but can’t do much about it. They pressure public officials and protest against proposed projects, but that’s as far as citizen participation in city building usually goes. It’s reactive, not proactive. However, this model of citizen participation is being rethought...[read more]

 Central America isn’t usually seen as a hotbed of renewable energy, but for two countries at least, that’s starting to change. And it’s driven as much by worries over energy costs and security as it is by concerns over carbon. In the Dominican Republic, three major new wind farms will come onstream this year, adding a combined...[read more]

The City of Toronto is set to launch a bike-sharing program as an extension of its public transit system. Photo by wyliepoon. A new bike-sharing program, called BIXI (short for “bicycle-taxi,”) will be installed in Toronto starting May 2011. Currently, the system has been operating in Montreal, Canada, since its inception in May...[read more]