The complaint was first filed by members of campaign group Adfree Cities. The ASA upheld the complaint and banned the ads in June 2024. Speaking about the case, Adfree Cities co-director Veronica Wignall said“This level of deception is totally shocking – it’s like advertising cigarettes as...
San Francisco, California: San Francisco is one of the most sustainable cities in the US, with a zero waste program designed to divert 100% of waste from landfills by 2020. The city also banned products like plastic bags and water bottles. Cape Town, South Africa: Cape Town began installing...
National development planning and urban management have failed dismally in attempts to devise workable solutions to population pressures and living conditions in the two cities. South African policy makers might learn valuable lessons in how to avoid the pitfalls apparent in the cases of Cairo and ...
In the face of climate change, cities are using land policy to build resilience. Land policy can help communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a practice known asmitigation, and increase communities’ resilience to the unavoidable impacts of climate change on people, and on the built and natur...
investments. This aims to make it easier for U.S. companies to conduct business with a range of producers, suppliers, and manufacturers in East Asia, including the tiger economies. Long-standing financial hubs like Singapore and major Chinese cities could also benefit from greater access to U....
(He had an abundance of good things). "The cities are great, and walled up to heaven." (They were very high). "Everyone could sling stones at a hair and not miss." (They were very accurate). Behold, the world is gone after him." (The whole world at that time did NOT follow ...
and its global prominence is steadily rising with Indonesia now ranked as the fourth most populous nation. Unfortunately, Jakarta is also known as one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, and the issue has become so extreme that the Indonesian government has chosen to abandon it as a ...
Four countries where landscapes and cities are dissimilar to France’s. Four countries that allowed me to discover numerous communities, recipes and traditions. Four countries where I met animals, plants and humans I had never seen before. I am a city girl. As a little girl, I was never ...
Like the other great river valley cultures,Egyptbuilt its cities with mud brick; fired brick did not appear there until Roman times. Timber was used sparingly, for it was never abundant. It was used mainly in roofs, where it was heavily supplemented by reeds. Only a few royal buildings we...
It was Northern reaction to the Black Codes—as well as to theMemphis massacreand theNew Orleans massacre, both of which were attacks by white mobs on Black residents of those cities in 1866—that helped produceRadical Reconstruction(1867–77) and theFourteenthandFifteenthamendmentsto theU.S. Co...