One phenomenon we have seen over the past year is the movement to combat climate change has transitioned to one led by cities, states, and businesses. While national and multi-national le...
Water is a precious resource on our planet, and all life requires water to survive. Rapid urbanization has brought to acute focus a need for the intelligent management of fresh water, was...
What are the most significant trends we are seeing as city administrations prepare for the fourth industrial revolution and what can we expect in the coming years? Is all the technology i...
In November 2019, the people of Quito will start travelling on the city’s first metro line, three years after construction started. The line will be expected to support at least 300,000 t...
The smart building concept is one of the most radical innovations to come to building design in generations. But smart buildings are just emerging, and we still don’t have a single, share...
Today’s cities are on the frontline of crime and terrorism. While some of them are clearly more at risk than others, all of them are vulnerable. Not surprisingly, cities are experimenting...
Ever since the ancient Greek poet Theocritus wrote his pastoral idylls romanticizing rural life, people have been pondering how to build cities that are in concert with their natural surr...
Latin America is the planet's most urbanized region. In just over a generation - between 1950 and 2010 - the proportion of people living in cities grew from 30% to more than 85%. By 2050,...
Though some countries (and cities) are faring worse than others, the world is becoming safer and more prosperous overall – hard as that may be to believe. This is especially true of democ...
Digital disruption is transforming the way we envision our cities. As we embark on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we must challenge traditional ways of thinking about how we manage our...
In spite of disturbing headlines about war and terrorism, most of the world actually got safer in 2017. A review of the latest data reveals a noticeable drop in murder when compared to 20...
I am fortunate enough to live in one of the greenest cities on the planet: Copenhagen. The 2014 European Green Capital is a city where four out of 10 people commute by bike. It has more t...
Latin America's largest city, São Paulo, was once among the region's most violent. But the bustling metropolis of over 12 million Paulistanos has experienced a remarkable decline in homic...
By now, we all know that global warming is slowly boiling our planet. We also understand that it is caused by a long list of human activities, with our insatiable hunger for energy right ...
Electric cars are all over the media as major disrupters of urban mobility. These stories seem to consign to oblivion that electric cars take up as much space as their combustion counterp...
