Today marks an announcement by Future Cities Catapult, the Government supported UK centre of excellence in urban innovation, of £100,000 in funding for UK SMEs to demonstrate how...
The latest research from the New Climate Economy has revealed that better, smarter urban growth could be an economic opportunity for India worth up to 6%...
£50,000 of funding for UK SMEs to solve urban challenges in London, using cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Things Connected has been announced today by Future...
Today marks the launch of AkzoNobel’s latest Human Cities initiative in Rotterdam with the support of the city’s chief resilience officer, Arnoud Molenaar, benefitting the city’s...
The next 37 member cities welcomed into the 100 Resilient Cities network (100RC) have been announced. Among them are Manchester and Belfast, helping the UK become the...
Over 2,500 businesspeople, politicians and scientists have gathered in Sweden for the 24th World Water Week, with a focus on energy and water, and how the...
New research has found almost a third of France’s 900 species of wild bees live in towns and cities, suggesting that urban settings can play a...
The 2014 application process for the 100 Resilient Cities challenge, which is pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, has officially opened and is looking for cities that...
The year is 2000 and Jan Levy is in Bolivia. A year into his MBA course, he had become disillusioned. Fed up of the share price-obsessed...
China’s use of water for agriculture has come under scrutiny, with crops grown in water-stressed regions later exported to areas that experience lots of rain. Experts...
Cities – those grey, urban, concrete structures – could be the green centres of the modern world. Rolling hills and lush fields may be actually green,...
Four people have died and 1,600 hospitalised following a weekend of extremely hot weather in Japan, where temperatures touched 40C in some areas. According to the...
A combination of the spread of urbanisation and rising global temperatures caused by climate change could have deadly results, according to a new study investigating heat-related...
It has been proposed that London should become a national park. The world’s first urban national park, in fact. You might think that this is ridiculous,...
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, now in his new role as a UN special envoy, said on Tuesday that it is cities and their...