Will London soon get a floating park?
The proposal to build a floating park at Royal Victoria Dock in London is an example of how cities are reclaiming underused postindustrial waterfront areas and adapting them to current urban needs without using additional land.
An artificial, smart island: Ambassadori Island Batumi in Georgia is making headway
The Georgian city of Batumi lies on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, and, with just over 170,000 inhabitants, it is the country’s second-largest city. Yet this port city, rarely in the international spotlight, has recently drawn attention as it develops a smart city project that extends its territory into the sea, in the style of Dubai.
Heatwave risk, down to your block: the new tool making it visible
Mapping tools are already helping to understand settlement patterns (and provide deeper insight into urban development in Africa, for example) and smart city projects have optimized everything from traffic to irrigation management, among many other areas. Artificial intelligence has already improved urban life. Software applications, data analytics, and AI could also transform how high temperatures and their effects are managed.
The new cars and alternative vehicles in cities: connected, electric, autonomous and on-demand
Cities around the world are working on new forms of mobility, public and private, in order to increase quality of life and sustainability.
From driverless trams to automated depots: Germany robotises its public transport
A consortium of companies and research centres in Germany is testing an autonomous tram depot, paving the way for a fully autonomous tram.
Sustainable architecture: design, materials and more about sustainable buildings
New environmental requirements have led to a transition affecting architecture at all levels. The aim is to adopt ecological urbanism practices through the established trend of sustainable architecture. But what are the requirements for an architectural project to be considered sustainable?
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European project aims to reduce bus water usage by over 70%
This may be something we are unaware of as citizens or simply never consider: the urban bus sector uses tens of millions of cubic meters of water each year in operations such as washing. These figures highlight the hidden impact of water on urban mobility and explain why projects like LIFE H2OBus are seen as pioneering, as they specifically address an issue that often goes unnoticed but which is far from insignificant: water management in road based public transport.
Belgium deploys claimed world’s first commercial mobile service on 5G Core SaaS
Belgium has launched the world’s first commercial mobile service based on 5G Core Software as a Service SaaS, powered by Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SaaS model transforms the core network into a subscription based service, allowing networks to be built and scaled without the complexity of traditional systems while reducing upfront capital investment.
Novel UK standard system to accelerate local energy planning
The United Kingdom has launched a new energy standard to make local energy planning faster and more effective, thanks to the standardization of processes and data sharing between local authorities and grid operators. This plan will benefit communities and save local councils time and money.