Joe Peach is the Editor-in-Chief at This Big City, which he launched in September 2009. Joe writes articles on sustainable urbanism for numerous websites and magazines, and works as a Technology Strategy Consultant at IBM (with which This Big City has no affiliation). In 2010, Joe won a Sustainability Now Social Media Award in the 'Best Blog Post' category for The Truth About London's Cycle Superhighways, and in 2011 took home the 'Built Environment Blogger of the Year' and 'Best Sustainability Blog' trophies at the Be2 Awards. All views expressed on This Big City are his own. Follow Joe on Twitter, or get in touch via email.
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Last week we hosted another #citytalk tweetchat with the New Cities Foundation on the topic of Future Cities. With the world urbanising, current cities are growing and many new cities are being built. But will the future of the world be led by megacities? |
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For the first time ever, the majority of the world’s population live in cities. And though Asian megacities get plenty of coverage, what makes a city varies wildly. So rather than thinking BIG, here’s five of the world’s ‘smallest’ cities. |
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As the world urbanises and our lifestyles evolve, cities are getting bigger. And we’re not just talking about population sizes. As This Big City kicks off a fortnight of themed posts on Megacities and Microcities, what better way to start than by taking a look at five of the world’s ‘biggest’ cities? |
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In the two years since Transport for London lifted all restrictions on the commercial use of data, a whole fleet of applications have been released that make getting around London much easier, whatever form of transport you rely on. Here’s four apps to help you get around London on public transport. |
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Want to use Facebook for more than just keeping up with your friends? Easy! Though Facebook isn’t quite a treasure trove of Twitter or Tumblr proportions for urbanism resources, there’s plenty of pages worth giving your valuable like to. Here’s ten of our favourites. |
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Something is stopping the bicycle from becoming a mainstream mode of transport in many cities, and we want to know why. So This Big City and Future Cape Town are devoting this wednesday’s #citytalk tweetchat to the topic of cycling and cities. |
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When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? Thanks to light pollution, probably not very much. Only 10% of the UK enjoys a truly dark sky, and it’s a similar situation across the urbanised world. But these four ideas could change that. |
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Managing a large building’s energy consumption is no easy task, with little visibility as to where energy is actually going. Enter ‘Pulse’ – a digital tool which monitors a building’s electricity usage and updates straight to the web in near real-time. |