Housing Policy Has Consequences For Urban Communities … And Nations
Urban housing policy must take into account the carbon footprint associated with city living and minimize it.
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Car-Dominated Urban Sprawl Will Become Irrelevant Urban Blight
Don’t get fussed about electric cars not being a solution. They are part of the kit bag. If you sensibly want urban densification, transit, walkability and a lot more biking, move to a city that has them and enjoy it.
EVs & Hostageware: The Push To Sell Stuff Over The Air
Over the air updates are all the rage, but is there a darker side to such digital convenience?
Uncovering The Mechanisms Linking Air Pollution To Psychosis
Let’s start with just a few adjectives about our daily lives — overexposed, overwhelmed, stimulated, toxic, deficient. It’s not enough that many young people lack good nutrition, but they are also challenged by circumstance by a lack of clean air to breathe and pure water to drink.
Smart Cities Aren’t Just IoT, But Also Opioid Response, Transit, Streets, & People
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are just the start.
5 Cities Show What Urban Transformation Looks Like
The WRI Ross Prize for Cities aims to spotlight exemplary real-world examples of urban transformation to help inspire better cities for all. Nearly 200 projects around the globe submitted applications for the inaugural $250,000 prize.
CleanTechnica Survey Respondents Love E-Bikes & Have Money: Part 1
Older, male, wealthier and in North America for the most part. Strongly identifying as city dwellers, not rural dwellers. Not a surprising response, but a useful one.
Cities & Global Warming Have A Complex Relationship
Urbanization is one of the factors which allowed more humans to survive and hence the population to grow. Cities were integral to the success of the Industrial Revolution and without them, humanity wouldn’t have changed the climate as much.
Gulf Of Mexico Dead Zone Is 3 Times Larger Than Long-Term Targets
The 2018 Gulf of Mexico dead zone isn’t quite as big as last summer, but is that really good news?
Instead Of Tripling–Cut City Energy Use 25% By 2050?
What if we could cut city energy use by about one-fourth, from 730 EJ to 540 EJ, in 2050? The alternative is tripling it, as current urbanization trends indicate. The most urbanized areas of the globe are North America (82%), Latin America and the Caribbean (80%), and Europe (73%). Urban areas play … [continued]
