Tag: Cities - Page 3
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Paris Tests Out Snazzy New 'Bus Stop of the Future'
Multi-purpose public space outside Gare de Lyon offers bike rentals, a book lending library, and places to buy coffee and recharge your cell phone.
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Outrage After Tree is Cut Down to Improve View of Billboard
"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.
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Social-Media Enabled Aquaponics in West Oakland
A small start-up in West Oakland is farming fish and veggies, and using the internet and social networking to do it.
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Singapore's Supertree-Powered Gardens By the Bay Opens to Public (Photos)
One-hundred-hectacre waterfront reclamation project spans 101 hectares, provides 'showcase' of sustainable practices and world's plants.
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More Trees = Less Crime in Baltimore, Study Shows
Researchers found that a 10 percent increase in trees roughly matched a 12 percent decrease in crime in Baltimore.
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Closed Park Prompts Green Occupation Of Beirut
Activists are taking over 12 different locations in the Lebanese capital with grass, picnickers, cyclists, kite-flyers, and kids to demand the reopening of the city's largest green space.
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High-Performance, Star Wars-like Electric Motor Bike
The Agility Saietta would not look out of place cruising around the Death Star. It even keeps its "good, green side" secret...
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Saudi Arabia Dumping Ground Becomes a Desert Oasis
A decade-long restoration project in Riyadh has cleaned up a polluted river valley and turned it into a vast public park.
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Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale
Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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Interactive Solar Art Lights Up New Sydney Space
The world’s largest permanent interactive light installation has been installed in Sydney's recently revitalized Darling Quarter.
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1916 Plan Would Have Added 50 Square Miles of Artificial Land to NYC
A 1916 proposal from a respected engineer called for the moving of the East River and the connection of Manhattan to Staten Island.
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Boston Gardening Initiative to Offer Free ‘TOM-ato’ Plants to Promote Urban Gardening
Boston is hosting a tomato plant giveaway to encourage new urban gardeners.
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Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture
The prototype Globe/Hedron is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. It uses aquaponic farming techniques so the fish's water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish.
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Is Placemaking the "New Environmentalism"?
Kaid Benfield of the NRDC makes the case that people habitat is as important as natural habitat.
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The Week in Pictures: The Freaky Future of City Driving, "Supertrees" Take over Singapore, and More
The lightweight Renault Twizy could shake up the automotive world, 18 biometric "supertrees" are turning Singapore into a lively forest, and more.
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Green Rural Design Aims to Slow Urban Slum Growth
The NESTown development concept envisions the building of self-sufficient, environmentally friendly 'semi-urban centers' in rural Ethiopia that would allow farmers to improve their financial prospects without abandoning the land.
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How Do You Fit 1 Million More People in NYC?
Three New York urbanists discussed how to balance infrastructure development, neighborhood character and other factors in preparing for the future growth of New York.
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Pigeons Could Poop Soap, Thanks to a Special Diet
A plan to alter what pigeons eat to turn their feces into soap, to clean up buildings and car windshields raises ethical, legal and practical questions.
