cities

Forestall One other European Transport Meltdown

[ad_1] As if the cancellation of flights and trains on account of strikes and workers shortages weren’t upsetting vacationers sufficient…

2 years ago

New York City is drowning in packages

[ad_1] Noticing the increase in e-commerce delivery traffic, then-mayor Bill de Blasio allocated $38 million in the November 2021 budget…

2 years ago

Transport Apps Promised to Eliminate Friction. But at What Cost?

[ad_1] In the vision of the “frictionless” city that is held by many in tech, where virtually every city service,…

2 years ago

We need smarter cities, not “smart cities”

[ad_1] The term “smart cities” originated as a marketing strategy for large IT vendors. It has now become synonymous with…

2 years ago

The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia

[ad_1] What is interesting about both early and current visions of urban sensing networks and the use that could be…

2 years ago

Finland has become the first country to build a complete underground geological storage facility for its spent nuclear waste

[ad_1] The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of the New York City…

2 years ago

The future of urban housing is energy efficient refrigerators

[ad_1] Katerra’s all-encompassing vision of reforming the construction world, using billions of dollars in investment to build an entirely new…

2 years ago

Delivery apps are reshaping life in India’s megacities

[ad_1] It’s also not clear what problem they are solving, says Singhal, as most kiranas already take orders via WhatsApp…

2 years ago

Inside the experimental world of animal infrastructure

[ad_1] But Banff’s wildlife crossings, like most, suffer from a sort of Horseless Carriage Syndrome, their designs circumscribed by existing…

2 years ago