This article provides an interesting description of a shift in urban planning and design revolving around feminism. In a suburb of Stockholm, a housing company, Svenska Bostäder (SB), aims to push for more feminist urban planning by redesigning the area’s center to create a gender balance. With this approach, it …
It’s not the high-end jobs or better commute that is driving gentrification in major U.S. cities, but the unique and expensive amenities. According to a new study from the University of California Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, the widening gentrification gap in urban centres since …
Research conducted by Pew Research Center shows that there are significant differences in teens’ computer access based on their household income. School-age children in lower-income households are more like to lack broadband access, and this is even more prominent among black and Hispanic families. This digital divide – often referred …
Istanbul is the latest city to install “reverse vending machines” to allow commuters to pay transit fares by recycling plastic and aluminum. This policy aims to encourage recycling and reduce waste in Turkey as studies report that it had the lowest recycling rate in Europe. Each bottle or can is …
With global warming and depletion of resources, society is heading into an unsustainable future. To limit the consequences, green renewable energy provides an excellent solution. Purple phototrophic bacteria has capacity to produce hydrogen gas for electricity generation. It stores energy from light when exposed to an electric current allowing it …
Electricity generation from solar and wind is cheaper, but storage remains a problem. Total reliance on renewable electricity would, in fact, yield higher electric bills. A new company, Energy Vault, is working to counter this problem. The invention is similar to the way dams work. Excessive energy from a wind …
The city centre of Amsterdam has pledged that one quarter of its electricity production will be generated from sustainable resources by 2025. This seems difficult as the city have limited space for clean energy technology such as solar panels due to restrictions from historic buildings. The situation gave rise to …
Cement is an ingredient in concrete, the most used man-made material, and it emits 8% of the world’s carbon dioxide. Cement industry leaders have met for the UN’s climate change conference to discuss meeting the Paris Agreement requirements. Annual emissions from cement need to fall by 16% by 2030 to …
Jason Thorne, the head of the city planning department for the mid-sized city Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, shared a twitter thread that highlights many successful designs and ideas deployed in the city. Hamilton has different things than other cities such as free bus rides for cyclists up to the Niagara …
A Montreal supermarket became the first in Canada to have a green rooftop farms producing vegetables that are then sold in store. The Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent implanted a policy in 2015 requiring all new buildings to have a green or white roof on 50% of the surface. The Duchemin …