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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Would you take a sip of salty water ?
To raise awareness around the dangers of swimming in the sea (tragic deaths happen every year on the UK coastlines),…
Urban Radar
The largest "passive house" complex in the world will soon appear in Germany
A great example of sustainable urban projects is to be built in Heidelberg, Germany. The Heidelberg Village in…
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Discover the State of Minnesota in a box
Okay, Minnesota is not the most touristic state of the USA. And it suffers from a persistent image – that of a cold…
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Netflix will make you dance with these interactive windows
You may already know “The Get Down”, the new TV show produced by Baz Luhrmann which introduces us to the origins of the…
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Catch the Ghost train in Madrid Underground
In the global launch of the return of Ghostbusters - a famous 80s’ comedy - this summer, the Shackleton agency made a…
Facts & Figures
A Sao Paulo highway underpass will turn into a lively pedestrian park
As we mentioned in a previous Focus, neglected urban spaces represent great potential for the creation of vibrant…
Mercedez-Benz experiences the world’s first outdoor holographic prism
Road accidents due to a lack of vigilance to blind spots claim hundreds of lives every year. To raise awareness of the…
A map to visualize the daily commute of Americans
Commuting is an important part of the day for many Americans working far from their homes. But what do all these…
Uber is deeply changing our mobility habits
A recent survey by the French environmental agency Ademe reveals how deeply the vehicle for hire services changed our…
Be creative with this interactive poster
British snack food manufacturer Walker’s invited the Manchester public to play with this interactive poster. The…
Kellogg’s opened its first-ever restaurant in New York City
No, you are not dreaming: since July 9, you are able to order Frosted Flakes at a restaurant. Kellogg's embraces the…
Stockholm is the most connected city according to Ericsson
"Smart city" is an empty concept without a sustainable dimension. Resiliency, collaboration and mobility are essential…
When citizens transform their city (1) - Towards a crowdfunded urbanism
This Focus, first component of a trilogy dedicated to the innovative ways citizens can directly take action to change…
Urban Radar
New York State is going anti-Airbnb
Cities have not been very friendly with Airbnb lately. After Paris and Berlin, the New York State Senate just passed a…
Facts & Figures
Home isn’t a physical place anymore – and other insights about home by Ikea
Each year, Ikea releases its annual report Life at Home, the result of intensive research about what people have in…
Urban Radar
A tiny birdhouse that measures the air pollution and provides Wi-Fi in Amsterdam streets
A glowing, tiny birdhouse made its appearance in Amsterdam streets. Called TreeWifi, this little thing is actually…
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Get a sweat on at the bus stop with Reebok
Obesity is an increasing issue in Colombia. According to a study carried out by the Health Ministry, half of Colombians…
Focus
Nothing is lost, everything is transformed - including in the city
Though cities are depicted as lively places bustling with human activity, things become more ambivalent when you look…
Urban Radar
The sky is the limit
Buildings of the old Budapest can be architectural marvels. Photographer Zsolt Hlinka decided to change the way we…
Facts & Figures
And the riskiest place to live is in... Vanuatu !
With natural disasters on average affecting more than a third of the population each year, Vanuatu is considered as the…
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Ikea will open a pop-up restaurant in Paris
Ikea is not only famous for its furniture, but also for its typical meatballs you can eat after a long wander through…
Facts & Figures
Japan now has more electric car charging spots than gas stations
It's official: the number of charging spots surpass the number of gas stations in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. announced…
Urban Radar
Uber is increasingly seen as a transportation option in Moovit app
Real-time transit application Moovit just expanded its partnership with Uber to cover 22 countries worldwide. If the…
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This, Madame, is Versailles
To promote the famous Palace of Versailles, French railway company SNCF decided to transform the RER C urban train line…