April 8, 2015—Eight European cities from seven different countries will be scrutinized by an independent international panel of Experts over the coming weeks to determine if they will be shortlisted for an inaugural European Green Leaf - a stamp of environmental…
Washington, D.C. Leads Nation on EPA’s Energy Star Top Cities List
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2015 – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its seventh-annual list of the top 25 U.S. metropolitan…
C40 Launches City Climate Change Hazard Taxonomy for Public Comment
Today, at the UNISDR World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, C40 officially launched for public comment the City Climate Hazard Taxonomy, a structured…
Urban Labs Initiative Seeks Solutions for World’s Urban Challenges
March 11, 2015—The University of Chicago is creating a new network of five Urban Labs to address some of the world’s most daunting urban problems and help realize the promise of cities in an era of global urbanization. UChicago Urban Labs will design and…
Ancient and Modern Cities Aren’t So Different
Feb. 20, 2015—Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous…
Barcelona Named Global Smart City for 2015
Hampshire, Feb. 17, 2015—Juniper Research has today revealed the top ranking smart cities globally for 2015: Barcelona New York London Nice Singapore Juniper’s Smart City Rankings have been compiled following an analysis of each city’s ‘smart’ capabilities,…
Climate Change Could Leave Cities More in the Dark
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 17, 2014—Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in future storms. Johns Hopkins…
Cities Look to Nature to Bridge Water Investment Gap
The water sector has always struggled for investment, and each year the gap between dollars being spent and dollars that need to be spent on critical water infrastructure grows. The US, for example, is facing an $84bn funding gap by 2020, and it is estimated…
Envisioning Future Cities: Pocket Drones, Bioinspired Designs & Smart Citizens
We are experiencing an unprecedented era in the history of urbanization. How we manage the pace of urban growth will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century. The Future Cities Summit, organised by RE.WORK, brings together the most influential…
University of Minnesota Ranks Accessibility to Jobs by Transit in Top U.S. Cities
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, Oct. 7, 2014— New research from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota ranks 46 of the 50 largest (by population) metropolitan areas in the United States for accessibility to jobs by transit. The new rankings,…
