Public transport accounts for around 90% of all daily journeys in Hong Kong – the highest rate of any city in the world. When you consider that it’s also one of the globe’s most densely populated cities and that less than a fifth of residents own a car, it’s easy to see why p...
Common Attributes for Resilient and Sustainable Cities around the WorldAlthough, the broad definitions of resilience and sustainability are accepted universally, the implementation actions to achieve these goals in practice, are context dependent and thus, the outcome varies significantly, depending upon ...
Urban transport in most cities around the world is developing in an unsustainable fashion, as reflected by rapid growth in traffic congestion and air pollution driven by individual motorization. Strengthened bus systems, built on rapid bus corridors, and improved bus technologies could play an importan...
ACCIONA is building the sustainable cities of the future through some of the pioneering LEED- and BREEAM-certified, bioclimatic zero-emission building projects. More information ELECTRIC MOBILITY ACCIONA is expanding its sustainable and shared mobility solutions around the world. The company is currently...
Vienna, the Austrian capital, will see out its longstanding climate protection programme, called KLiP, now in its final phase. Sustainable waterways: Oslo As is the case for most major cities around the world, European towns bank onto a river. These are often forgotten about in the move ...
The pace of urban growth has been unprecedented. Around the turn of the century, for the first time in history, urban dwellers outnumbered their rural counterparts, and by 2015, nearly 4 billion people—54 per cent of the world's population—lived in cities. That number is projected to reac...
JERUSALEM, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Environmental issues are among the most pressuring concerns of seaside cities around the world that hope to find a solution through technological innovation for the growing problem. In an interview with Xinhua, Annika Olsen, former deputy prime minister of the Faro...
The opportunities are vast – but so, too, are the potential issues. In Sustainable Cities, you will learn about the major challenges currently faced by urban areas around the world – including poverty, unemployment, poor housing infrastructure, and constraints on productivity – and the ...
Cities matter to the world’s future — science must serve them better From governance to climate impacts, the world’s urban environments face many difficulties. A new journal, Nature Cities, aims to bring together researchers who are rising to the challenge. Editorial23 Jan 2024 Nature Deve...
Towards the sustainable development of smart cities through mass video surveillance: A response to the COVID-19 pandemic 来自 dx.doi.org 喜欢 0 阅读量: 95 作者:M Shorfuzzaman,MS Hossain,MF Alhamid 摘要: Sustainable smart city initiatives around the world have recently had great impact on the...