Read all posts for ‘sustainability’

World News Australia story on the sustainable city in the Gulf.

Facts about cities that show why building a future on sustainable cities is so important. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4Cn5EPzHM

Oil‐rich
 Abu
 Dhabi 
is 
building 
a 
green
 metropolis.
 Should
 the
 rest
 of
 the
 world 
care? “If 
the 
Masdar 
project 
doesn’t
 justify 
itself 
financially, 
it
 could 
indeed
 be 
just
 a
 green
 playground 
for
 the 
rich, 
an 
environmental
 theme
 park 
that 
is
largely 
irrelevant 
for 
the 
development
 of
 sustainable 
technology 
on
 a
 broader
 […]

“The expression creative city is on everyone‟s lips. If there has been talk of a „Renaissance in cities‟ since the 1990s, then at the interface of political, media and social science debates, this is regularly linked with the concept of the „creative city‟. From the widely discussed revitalisation of Berlin‟s […]

Considering the existential threat that global warming poses to humanity, the current focus on climate change is undoubtedly justified. However, this should not overshadow the fact that sustainable development does not only end with environmental concerns but also covers social and economic domains that are mediated through physical spaces and […]