New paths for the roads of tomorrow
Transportation news feeds are filled with tech innovations and new start-ups willing to improve our daily mobility…
Focus on
Swimming is back in town (it’s still summer!)
Among other natural elements, water surely is one of the most appreciated in cities – or even a symbol, as the famous …
How cities deal with the climate change risks
According to the non-profit organization “100 Resilient Cities”, urban resilience is the ability of individuals,…
Facts & Figures
100% of Parisians are close to Rapid Transit
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) measured the percentage of residents living close to…
Urban Radar
A website tells you where you can afford to live in the world
The Earth Awaits is a search engine that tells you where you could afford to live, depending on your savings. The site…
Urban Radar
A touch of blue in architecture
Buildings can look even more beautiful on a sunny day. The German photographer Maik Lipp plays with the blue sky in his…
Urban Radar
The new lives of Detroit's abandoned houses
Urban farming and community gardens are now flourishing in the bankrupt city of Detroit: some 1,400 green spaces of…
Outdoor is in
Heineken transformed an abandoned stadium into a street art temple
Since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the Miami Marine Stadium was left abandoned. The former arena where you could attend…
Outdoor is in
Uber uses drones to promote UberPOOL in the traffic jams of Mexico
Mexico City drivers experience endless traffic jams every day. Uber took opportunity of this situation to promote…
Focus
When citizens transform their city (2) - Crowdsourcing the city
This Focus, second component of a trilogy dedicated to the innovative ways through which citizens can directly take…
Urban Radar
In LA, people prefer Uber to car ownership
Mobility habits are changing - even in the Los Angeles area, where the car culture is almost a religion. The endless…
Urban Radar
When urban slide turns public space into a playground
We already observed on this blog that playgrounds aren't just for kids anymore. What if playgrounds weren't closed…
Facts & Figures
The arrogance of car space in Moscow
An old Russian proverb says: "There are only two problems in Russia: fools and roads". If we know little about Russian…
Facts & Figures
Electric cars, electric cars everywhere (soon ?)
If a recent study revealed that solar power can be contagious - the more you see solar panels in your environment, the…
Facts & Figures
And the most expensive city to live in the world is...
Singapore, for the third time in a row. Every year, The Economist Intelligence Unit releases a report focusing on the…