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 Monday, a hoard of urbanists sat in front of their computers to discuss the changing face of housing as part of our second #citytalk tweetchat. The discussion was fast paced, with the eight questions we discussed reaching over 44,000 people. Here are our favourite comments. |
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What makes a city ‘livable’? The answer depends, at least in part, on the location of the city in question. These three ideas present solutions to urban challenges in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, and each hopes to make their city more livable in the process. |
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How can we create wireless, interconnected cities? What can we do to make the processes required to maintain our urban environments more efficient? These are just some of the challenges facing the cities involved with the Living Labs Global Award 2012. |
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Something incredible happened last week in the UK. A major national newspaper launched a high profile campaign to make cities safe for cycling, presenting an eight step manifesto that makes it possible, which tens of thousands of people have gone on to back. |
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Poor water quality and inadequate distribution is more than a rural problem, with communities of varying sizes across the globe struggling to provide clean water for their inhabitants. This Big City recently got the chance to talk to the founder of an innovative project aiming to address this challenge. |
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The first BRT in the world was implemented in 1974 in Curitiba, Brazil, and high-speed, bus-priority public transport systems have been cropping up in cities all over the world since then. Here’s five that followed Latin America’s lead. |
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After asking lots of questions about the economics of sustainable cities last week, This Big City turned to Twitter to try and find some answers. During the very first #CityTalk, we got caught up in a seriously fast-paced discussion on the subject, with four key trends emerging. |
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After London successfully implement a congestion pricing scheme in 2003, countless cities said they were considering doing the same. Nine years later, few have followed London’s lead. So what’s happened to city-wide congestion pricing? |