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Why the Sharing Economy is a Big Opportunity for Cities | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/why-the-sharing-economy-is-a-big-opportunity-for-cities
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Why the Sharing Economy is a Big Opportunity for Cities. Is sharing the future? Some say it is. And in our quest to advance not only the environmental sustainability but also the social sustainability of cities, Joe Peach at. Asks some big questions to Neal Gorenflo about the recently published. Policies for Shareable Cities. By: Joe Peach at. This Big City: Could you start by telling the readers of. However, It inv...
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Urban Innovation: Steel and Plastic “Trees” to Generate Energy | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/urban-innovation-steel-and-plastic-trees-to-generate-energy
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Urban Innovation: Steel and Plastic Trees to Generate Energy. Energy self-sufficiency is a long way off for most cities, but could this innovative idea born in a French start-up help prod cities towards liberation from traditional energy sources? It’s not likely, but start-up. Has produced what it hopes will line major avenues and become a vanguard of energy production in cities of the future. Personally I’m t...
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Grenoble bans street ads, to replace billboards with trees | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/grenoble-bans-street-ads-to-replace-billboards-with-trees
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Grenoble bans street ads, to replace billboards with trees. Are billboard ads just a fact of life in big cities? The French city of Grenoble will become the first in Europe to remove all commercial advertising from its streets, with the city’s Green mayor promising to replace the signs and billboards with trees and community noticeboards. The office of Grenoble mayor, Eric Piolle, is cited by The Local news website.
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Sau Paulo faces water shortages amid unprecedented drought | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sau-paulo-faces-water-shortages-amid-unprecedented-drought
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Sau Paulo faces water shortages amid unprecedented drought. By: Brian Clark Howard. October 24, 2014 (National Geographic). Rainfall totals in the region this year are 12 to 16 inches (300 to 400 millimeters) below normal. The Landsat 8 images above show Jaguari Reservoir, one of five lakes in the Cantareira System that supply water to roughly half of the 20 million people in the São Paulo metropolitan area. (An...
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Should we ditch the “sustainable” label (and replace it with something meaningful)? | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/should-we-ditch-the-sustainable-label-and-replace-it-with-something-meaningful
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Should we ditch the sustainable label (and replace it with something meaningful)? I finally came to this conclusion (the thought had already been percolating for a while) after perusing an article in the Guardian newspaper (. Frankfurt beats London to most sustainable title. The city of frivolous, throw-away consumption. The city where the mayor recently proposed to make a 90% funding cut to education services.
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More waste, better economy? The dilemmas facing market-based solutions | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/the-waste-economy-and-other-market-based-green-economy-dilemmas
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. More waste, better economy? The dilemmas facing market-based solutions. Waste not, want not. This is bad news of course, at least officially. Holding dear to our tired motto, the European Commission claims that reducing the amount of waste generated, ahead of recycling or reusing, is a priority for waste policy on the continent. But just how realistic is it to pretend we can reduce waste? But if waste is the raw mat...
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Unstoppable Growth: Istanbul’s Decent into “Chaos” | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/unstoppable-growth-istanbuls-decent-into-chaos
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Unstoppable Growth: Istanbul’s Decent into Chaos. 8220;The ecological limits have been surpassed. The population limits have been surpassed. The economic limits have been surpassed. If you ask me where this will lead….chaos.” (Mucella Yapici, Istanbul Chamber of Architects). Can cities grow indefinitely? Stradling Europe and Asia. Constantinople (Istanbul in modern Turkish). Districts which would make Jane Jacobs ro...
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Cable cars reach new heights in Bolivia’s capital | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/cable-cars-reach-new-heights-in-bolivias-capital
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Cable cars reach new heights in Bolivia’s capital. For Eye on Latin America. Bolivia is now home to the world’s largest urban cable car. System, connecting two of the world’s highest major cities, and transforming the lives of tens of thousands of commuters. Situated on the altiplano. As the population of both cities has swelled in time with the emerging Bolivian economy, reaching a combined total of close to two mi...
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If New York fails, cities will have to take the lead once again. | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/if-new-york-fails-cities-will-have-to-take-the-lead-once-again
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. If New York fails, cities will have to take the lead once again. Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People’s Climate March Sunday, Sept. 21, 2004 (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow). Cities have been at the forefront in the fight to reduce carbon emissions. National governments however, with few exceptions, have been far slower off the mark. And they won’t pick up speed anytime soon. For state...
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Don’t sustain, regenerate. | URBAN ReTHINK
https://thesustainablecity.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/dont-sustain-regenerate
TRACKING THE FUTURE OF CITIES. Architecture and Urban Design. Food and Urban Agriculture. Don’t sustain, regenerate. Image credit: http:/ www.ortlos.com. Has sustainability as a concept reached its limits? Author and academic Herbert Giradet, who was recently in London to promote his book. Routledge, 2014), compares the term sustainability to “a rubber band that can be stretched almost at will in many directions . In a recent Guardian article. Now after decades of breakneck development that has witnessed...
