On China’s central plains, an ‘aerotropolis’ grows near Zhengzhou
ZHENGZHOU, China — If you have an iPhone, there’s a good chance it came from an enormous factory near the airport of this metropolis in... Read More
Watch Scott Mauvais, Director of Technology & Civic Innovation, Microsoft, discussing data privacy in smart cities.
Watch Scott Mauvais, Director of Technology & Civic Innovation, Microsoft, discussing data privacy in smart cities. Scott Mauvais – Director of Technology & Civic Innovation, Microsoft... Read More
How Durban set the global standard for providing water and sanitation for the poor
DURBAN, South Africa — Arguably the most elegant aspect of an inelegant subject is how this city of 3.2 million residents, South Africa’s second largest,... Read More
Idea Exchange: Berlin’s tool to help urbanists cope with ‘award overload’
For anyone who tracks innovative city programs around the world, award programs are a mixed blessing. The good part is the vetting. Most of the... Read More
The ‘Grand Paris’ era begins
PARIS, France — After the recent terrorist attacks here, followed by a whirlwind climate-change summit, it would be easy to miss an important administrative change... Read More
Vancouver policy to create rental housing brings life to the laneways
VANCOUVER, Canada — Brent Wager lined up with a few dozen other people in a Vancouver alleyway on a smudgy October afternoon, waiting to get... Read More
What Singapore is learning from Copenhagen on bicycling
SINGAPORE — Singapore is known worldwide as an urban innovator on many fronts, but promoting bicycling is not one of them. So when the city-state established... Read More
How Toronto is revitalizing its aging suburban residential towers
By Flavie Halais, Cityscope.org TORONTO, Canada — The suburban dream in North America wasn’t always about rows of individual houses, sprawling neighborhoods and tree-lined streets. Decades... Read More
What Melbourne learned cutting emissions from ‘1200 Buildings’
By Brendon Bosworth, Cityscope.org MELBOURNE, Australia — The octagonal office tower that sits above a Maserati dealership here has seen a lot of change since... Read More
Tel Aviv library makes room for tech startups
By Greg Scruggs, Cityscope.org TEL AVIV, Israel — For Yehuda Sabag, the biggest fear about launching a tech startup out of a public library was the... Read More