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Superblocks : How Barcelona Is Taking City Streets Back From Cars
Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars, one block at a time: This video is from Vox.
A 1987 Dream In Barcelona Reclaiming Its City For Its People
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution…
Barcelona’s Quest To Become The Smartest City Of Them All
Barcelona has been named the Smartest City in the world for 2015, according to a February publication…
Visualising The City Of Barcelona
At night in Barcelona, Gaudi’s Parc Guell lights up, and the little restaurants in Las Ramblas hop with…
Top Travel Destinations to Visit This Springtime 2023
As the weather warms up and the flowers start to bloom, it’s time to start planning your springtime…
Davos 2023: Key takeaways for cities and local economies
Last week, nearly 3,000 global leaders – including over 350 government leaders and 47 heads of state –…
4 Trends That Will Shape The Future Of Higher Education
Measures adopted during the pandemic do not address the root causes of the problems facing higher education. Institutions…
The Massive Costs Behind The Olympic Games
The 2020 Olympics are finally set to get underway in Tokyo on Friday barring a last minute cancellation amid rising…
The Cities With The Fastest 5G Speeds
Wireless mapping company Opensignal released an analysis of real-world 5G measurements across all frequency bands in mid-April which highlights network…
The Best And Worst Cities For Expats To Live In 2020
Asian cities dominate this year’s list. Countries at the bottom are not what you’d expect. Taipei emerges as…
What It Would Mean To Live In A Smart City
Smart cities are the future, with more and more cropping up around the globe, using technology to provide…
This ‘Self-Sufficient’ Chinese City Is Being Built With Future Pandemics In Mind
A new city near Beijing featuring wooden apartment blocks, rooftop farms and renewable energy is being designed with…
Architects Are Redesigning Cities To Help With Social Distancing
In the once-bustling Eixample district, birdsong and the occasional whir of a food delivery cyclist have replaced the…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2020
Here are the world’s smartest cities, according to a research published by IESE Business School in Barcelona. Now…
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
If A City Were Designed By Women, How Would It Look?
At a glimpse, our cities may seem like they cater to everyone. Taking a closer look, however, would…
4 European Cities With Low Living Costs But A Great Quality Of Life
For those people who are looking to get the most out of life by moving to a new…
How Smart Cities Can Help Your Business
The world is changing. The place that previous generations grew up in – and even our own –…
Top 10 Most Beautiful Cities In The World 2019
Which cities are the most beautiful in the world? FlightNetwork asked thousands of travel writers, travel bloggers, and…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2019
The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data and rankings for the world’s smartest cities for…
Small Housing Solutions For Large City Populations
The UN predicts that 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas by 2050, but with cities already…
Why The Actions Of Cities — Not Nations — Will Be The Key To Our Survival On Earth
While some world leaders resist global cooperation, city leaders are working across borders to tackle big issues like…
Learning About Cities By Mapping Their Smells
The English artist Kate McLean is trying to preserve our olfactory memory. Each of us probably has one:…
A European Network Of Rebel Cities?
In Europe, it is the cities that once again lead the way as places of radical innovation and…
Intercultural Cities: “Diversity As An Advantage”
What do Barcelona, Montreal, Hamamatsu, Tanger, Haifa, Ballarat and Mexico City have in common? These cities manage diversity…
Overtourism: A Growing Global Problem
The summer holidays are in full swing – and protests against overtourism have begun (yet again) in a number of…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2018
Note: Data for 2019 available here: https://citi.io/2019/06/27/the-top-50-smart-cities-in-the-world-2019/ The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data for the…
28 Best Party Cities & Places In The World
Some of the world’s most stunning destinations are also home to incredible nightlife for travelers to explore. From…
The Global Housing Crisis
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century…
Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes For Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so…
Europe’s Most Densely Populated Square Kilometres – Mapped
Prof Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield has crunched data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to locate…
Life Imitating Art, Architectures Imitating Nature
“These biomimetic designs reflect the natural world.” Architects have long been inspired by nature. Evidence of its influence…
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet…
Algorithmic Zoning Could Be The Answer To Cheaper Housing & More Equitable Cities
Zoning codes are a century old, and the lifeblood of all major U.S. cities (except arguably Houston), determining…
Why Does Catalonia Want Independence From Spain?
Why are Barcelona and Real Madrid such fierce sporting rivals? Here is the story of why Catalonia wants…
Planning Cities For Migration
Migration is a natural human phenomenon, but not one that organisations in the built environment are that focused…
Why Do We Keep Building Depressingly Designed Cities?
Prof Colin Ellard was walking past the rows of new-build towers that dominate the west of central Toronto…
Cities Redefining What Densely Populated Means
Cities are all about density – groups of strangers agreeing to spend their lives in close proximity, whether…
The State Of Smart Cities, Today
The term “smart city” has been around for a few years now and is a popular topic of…
The Top 10 Best Christmas Markets Of The World
In the weeks leading up Christmas, holiday markets open across Europe and America as part of an annual…
How “Urbanpreneur” Play Out In Cities Around The World?
How the internet ushered in a new era for entrepreneurs in the urban ecosystem. For years we’ve heard…
Which City Do You Think Is More Dense: Paris Or New York City?
It’s not just because they’re old. Which city do you think is more dense: Paris or New York…
Earth Is Speaking Back To Us With Alphabets!
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam…
Major Cities Across The World Re-imagined Through A Video Game Universe
We don’t really feature video games here but a recent press release of game studio Eidos-Montreal showcasing their…
Foodie Travelers Guide: 30 Best Food Cities In The World
What is the best part about traveling around the world aside from taking in the scenery and the…
When The Trip To The Airport Is A Journey In Itself
A city always begins with one airport, usually located outside the city limits to allow the city some…
Top 20 Cities In The World For Cycling Lifestyle
THE BICYCLE MAKES sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around…
Chaotic 21st Century Is In Need Of New Global Alliance
The deadly spread of ebola in west Africa and the prolonged earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti were a…
The Top 7 Go-To Urban Beaches In The World
1. IPANEMA Not only is Rio de Janeiro blessed with some of the world’s most dramatically gorgeous scenery,…
Raising The Bar For Smart Cities In Singapore
Government-deployed sensors will collect and coordinate an unprecedented amount of data on daily life in the city. This…