Some cities have vehicle-free days, when private cars, trucks, and motorcycles are banned in the city centre. People are encouraged to use public transportation like buses, taxis and metros. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and include any releva...
Many cities in the world are benefiting from the nocturnal (夜间活动的) activities of a group of people who call themselves guerrilla (游击队的) gardeners. Armed with trowels, spades and a van full of flowers and plants, guerrilla gardeners turn abandoned urban land into a blaze of color. ...
These measures are crucial because Gary, like many older cities, has a combined sewage system that carries rainwater, sewage and industrial wastewater to the treatment plant in the same pipes. During heavy storms — more common due to climate change —rainwater overwhelms the system, forcing the ...
They also derive some comfort from the rising wages in China's coastal cities that they hope will contain a widening of the cost advantage in China's favor. 1 Even if China squeezes Southeast Asian producers out of the markets for low tech, labor intensive, "commodified" manufactures, ...
Not so long ago, online shoppers in the low-tier cities and the rural areas in China were unlikely to have access to premium foreign products unless they took a trip to a major city like Shanghai or Shenzhen. Now, all it takes is a few clicks for them to order whatever they want, ...
One day, when I was washing my hands, my mother came to me and told me that I should not wash my hands with so much water. Until then did I realize that I had the habit of wasting water.In some cities, people even can’t not take a shower every day. From then on, I start ...
Are you listening, Washington? Do you hear me, Corporate America? Europe is setting itself up as a leader in circularity — I heard this again and again in Amsterdam, one of six pilot cities taking part in the EU-fundedREFLOW project. The project aims to turn the participants — Amsterdam...
Huawei’s wireless trinity – RuralStar, PoleStar, and TubeStar – offer different mobile connectivity features and application scenarios, but have one crucial concept in common: a Site-On-Demand model that can provide communications sites where and when they’re needed. In cities, PoleStar and Tu...
Yiwu, a city in the Zhejiang Province, is okay. There are very sporadic pockets of lockdowns in small towns. There are temporary lockdowns, usually for one to two weeks affecting the manufacturers located in the said cities. If a COVID case happens in these small cities, that specific ...
In fact, by one measure, Charlotte is the worst mobility city out of the top 50 cities in the US. The city was kind of shocked when we initially published this statistic, but they responded by really trying to ask, why was it that all of these local strong businesses weren’t leading...