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Sheltersuit - A Warm Jacket and a Portable Bed Combined

Written by Maren Berthold, 05-01-2021

For many people, it's not always possible to curl up in a warm bed at the end of the day. The Sheltersuit Foundation has designed an innovative, super-warm jacket that becomes a bed at night - a portable shelter for people who don't have a roof over their heads. Read on

Streetlights Less to Blame for Light Pollution Than Previously Believed

Written by Leonie Asendorpf, 22-12-2020

Using satellite imagery and smart city technologies, researchers have discovered the real impact streetlights have on light pollution in our cities. Read on

Europe Targets 100 Climate-Neutral Cities by 2030

Written by Guest Author, 07-12-2020

Europe is launching an ambitious mission to decarbonise many of its urban areas within a decade. But is it realistic? Read on

Green City Watch: Using Geospatial Technology to Help Urban Trees Thrive

Written by Katia Mullova, 19-11-2020

Green City Watch is working at the intersection of geospatial data and artificial intelligence in a bid to streamline and optimise the way cities care for their green spaces. RESET spoke to co-founder Nadina Galle about their work and to find out how the technologies they're using could change our relationship to nature in the long term. Read on

Peruvian Project Uses Drones to Map, Protect and Strengthen Informal Urban Settlements

Written by Katie Cashman, 04-06-2020

A Peruvian programme is using drones to help put urban settlements on the map (quite literally), in a bid to improve housing rights and climate change resilience for underserved local residents. Read on

Paris's Public Bike Sharing Schemes: Win or Fail for the Environment?

Written by Jan Wisniewski, 30-09-2019

City-bike share schemes have long been touted as an eco-friendly form of urban mobility, part of the sustainability package of any modern city. But has Paris’s adoption made it a greener city? And does bike sharing in general have genuine environmental benefits? Read on

Solar Spline: a Sunshade for the City That Generates Clean Energy

Written by Lydia Skrabania, 18-10-2018

A university project called "Solar Spline" aims to kill (or at least help) three birds with one stone: provide shade, produce energy, and make urban spaces more liveable. Read on

Smog-Eating-Bicycles to Be Developed in China: But Can We Just Pedal Our Air Clean?

Written by Annalisa Dorigo, 16-08-2017

The creative mind behind the smog-eating tower and the smog-jewellery is collaborating with China's largest bike-sharing scheme provider to come up with a fleet of smog-eating bikes for the city of Beijing. But will they just be biting off more than they can chew? Read on

Kasita's Minimalist Design for Smart, Compact and Affordable Housing

Written by Tina Gallico, 13-07-2017

Sprawling urbanisation and sky rocketing house prices are major issues in cities around the world. Kasita is a new type of housing and multi-unit development model that provides technologically advanced, environmentally friendly and economical housing for urban citizens. Read on

How Strava Metro's Deep Data Can Help Make City Planning More Sustainable

Written by Tina Gallico, 29-06-2017

Strava Metro is a data service that aims to make life better for pedestrians and cyclists around the world. By collating the data recorded by individuals' activity tracker apps, it can help urban planners make informed decisions and make cities more bike and pedestrian friendly in the process. Read on

Inclusive, Sustainable, Smart: World Cities Day Takes a Look at Our Urban Future

Written by Anna Rees, 31-10-2016

October 31 is earmarked each year as World Cities Day by the United Nations, prompting us to assess how cities can develop in a way that is beneficial to the environment and residents alike. Read on

Where Are the World’s ‘Fragile’ Cities?

Written by Anna Rees, 06-10-2016

A consortium of NGOs, think tanks and educational institutions has published data visualisations and rankings that measure the ‘fragility’ of cities around the world. Read on

Crowdsourcing a Better Transport System - Worldwide

Written by Anna Rees, 14-03-2016

The app Ally not only offers useful info on the quickest way to get from A to B, it also looks to use crowdsourcing to sustainably improve public transport networks. Read on

Drones and Satellites for Good - How Many Drones Can a City Handle?

Written by Laura Holzäpfel, 12-08-2015

The day when drones become part of our daily lives seems to be awhile off. However, Amazon and the like are working fervently on this scenario. It is therefore time to ask: to what extent are we willing to accept drones as part of our urban surroundings? The project "Unter Drohnen" (Under Drones) takes a closer look at this question. Read on

A Uniquely Artistic Take On Lisbon's Trash

Written by Marisa Pettit, 03-06-2015

How does that saying go again? "One man's trash is another man's... mural?" A talented young street artist from Lisbon has created a serious of mammoth-sized sculptures on the streets of his hometown: collecting local garbage and ingeniously constructing it into eye-popping 3D works of art. Read on

Seizing the Urban Moment: The New Cities Summit 2015

Written by Marisa Pettit, 11-03-2015

With urbanisation increasing around the globe, and people moving from rural areas to cities with unprecedented speed, what does this mean for the future of the world’s cities? Read on

Smart Cities: Efficient, Sustainable, Digitised Living

Our current global environment is undergoing significant changes that have never been experienced in the history of humanity. Coupled with an increase in rural to urban migration, the need to create sustainable communities and cities is more visible than ever before. We take a look at the notion of 'Smart Cities'. Read on

Orange Social Design Award by Spiegel Online

Written by Ajay Pal Singh Chabba, 30-09-2014

As the saying goes, there is always someone watching out for the good work that you do. This time there is someone famous out there awarding sustainable designers, namely two of Germany's biggest media sites: Spiegel Online and KulturSpiegel, who are behind the Orange Social Design Award. Read on

Ranking the World's Most Bike-Friendly Cities

Recommended by Frank Wichert, 06-05-2013

The Copenhagen-based urban planning consultancy Copenhagenize Design Co. has released the follow-up to its 2011 rankings of the world's most bike-friendly cities. Only one city in North America cracked the top 20. To source

The Need to Connect Urban Populations to Sustainable Transport

Written by Ajay Pal Singh Chabba, 12-04-2013

McKinsey Global Institute projections show India’s urban population soaring from 340 million in 2008 to 590 million by 2030. This urban expansion will happen at a speed quite unlike anything India has seen before. Read on