How the Netherlands Cracked Urban Data Sharing — and Why Europe Should Use It
Europe’s cities can accelerate housing, mobility and climate solutions through trusted urban data sharing. Learn how the Dutch PDX model works.
Zurich has been named the world’s smartest city for the seventh year running. How did it do it?
Zurich continues its reign as the world’s smartest city. Year after year, for seven years running, the Swiss city has topped the ranking compiled by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), which assesses various key aspects of smart cities to produce its ranking of 148 cities.
Mobility for everyone: why intergenerational fairness matters
Mobility for everyone starts with listening. Explore how lived experience, local knowledge and intergenerational dialogue can shape fairer mobility systems.
Barcelona: when the infrastructure to beat the heat already exists
How Barcelona turned libraries, schools and parks into a citywide network of climate shelters to protect residents from extreme heat.
How Cities Can Fast-Track Sustainable Neighbourhoods — With the Right Knowledge, Skills, and Funding
Discover how the New European Bauhaus is helping cities build more inclusive, sustainable neighbourhoods through expert support, funding and collaboration.
Fractional Ownership of the Skyline: The Hyper-Financialization of Smart Real Estate
Is it possible to invest in an iconic building without buying an entire property? Blockchain-based real estate tokenization makes this possible by converting properties into digital shares, making it easier to diversify and manage investments. However, this model also presents regulatory, liquidity, technological and platform solvency challenges.
Decentralized Energy Grids: When Neighborhoods Share Power
A decentralized grid turns a neighborhood into an autonomous and secure energy system capable of generating, storing, and sharing some of the electricity it needs. By bringing production closer to where energy is consumed, it enables demand to be managed intelligently, makes better use of renewable energy, and provides greater flexibility in responding to consumption peaks or power outages.
Smart Urban Hospitality: Why the cities of the future will be designed around experience
Discover how Smart Urban Hospitality is redefining cities, focusing on how urban spaces welcome, guide, support, and care for everyone who moves through them.
Concular: when buildings stop being waste and become material banks
Concular reimagines buildings as the start of materials’ next life, creating a new circular infrastructure for more sustainable urban development.
Living Concrete — How the use of microorganisms can revolutionize city building
Living concrete is a sustainable building material with many benefits. What is and how it could change the construction industry?