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How to keep Paris cool during the Olympics 2024

The "Climate Resilience and Adaptation Innovation Challenge", launched by the City of Paris, invites participating organisati (...)

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Housing needs, construction practices and urbanisation trends in North West Africa and Europe

Review of housing needs, construction practices in North-West Africa & Europe and analysis of the housing situation in curren (...)

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Trees and drought in urban areas: case studies of New York, London, Paris and Lyon

This summer has not only been marked by heat waves and drought, but also fires which have destroyed vast areas of vegetation (...)

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Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more liveable, net-zero cities

Our ageing cities are badly in need of regeneration. Many established residential areas, the “greyfields”, are becoming physi (...)

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How digital technology can help keep cities green and pleasant

  Photo : Preechar Bowonkitwanchai / shutterstock Parks, small woodlands and even simple patches of grass not only keep (...)

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Inclusion, walkability will be key to rebuilding cities after the COVID-19 pandemic

Cities emerged as the epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic: roughly 90 per cent of COVID-19 infections worldwide were reporte (...)

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X BioEconomic® Sitges 2021 Conference “Biophilia, reconnecting the city and buildings with nature”.

The Sitges City Council and BioEconomic are pleased to announce the X BioEconomic® Sitges 2021 Conference “Biophilia, reconne (...)

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Get ready for Pollutec hybrid version in October 2021

Pollutec is established as the reference event for environment professionals. It is also a platform for environmental and (...)

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OPENGELA getting ready for replicating its urban regeneration programme throughout the Basque Country

To replicate the OPENGELA model, it is necessary to lay the foundations for neighbourhood offices to operate. For this reason (...)

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Leading the fight against climate change

The URBAN GreenUP city of Valladolid has won the III Edition of the "Climate Leaders Awards" in the category of "Local Admin (...)

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Lacaton and Vassal: how this year's Pritzker prize could spark an architectural revolution

The Frac Nord Pas de Calais art centre, designed by Lacaton and Vassal in 2013. Ville de Dunkerque, Wikimedia Commons, CC (...)

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Inclusive guide helps communities build urban resilience

The new Urban Action Kit, launched by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the (...)

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A century that profoundly changed universities and their campuses

EQRoy/Shutterstock Geoff Hanmer This history of the development of universities is the first of two articles on the past (...)

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Improved urban parks increase communities’ climate resilience

Start Park, a project led by citizens from Florence, Italy, has won “Most advanced idea” at the global Climathon Awards  (...)

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How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

Cunaplus, Shutterstock Cameron Tonkinwise, University of Technology Sydney et Abby Mellick Lopes, University of Technology (...)

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