All posts in Europe

Jan

How Romania’s Five Biggest Cities are Moving in the Green Direction

Categories: Europe, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc

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by Dana Fatol

After joining the European Union back in 2007, the word “sustainability” started to be heard more frequently in Romania. New opportunities for people to explore and learn from Western countries were suddenly opened, but also new minimum requirements to be met. Read more

Jan

Hamburg’s Creative Class and the Post-Creative City

Categories: Arts and Culture, Europe, People

Tags: cc, Hamburg

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by Silvie Jacobi

Over the last 10 years Hamburg has become the setting for an intense debate around urban policy and creative cities, with some experts even suggesting that the case of Hamburg could constitute a new model for socially sustainable creative cities. Read more

Dec

Cities Without Borders

Categories: Europe, Planning, Urban Scale, USA and Canada

Tags: cc

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by Future Cape Town

Borders are expensive to maintain, inefficient and burdened down by bureaucratic red-tape. With increasing globalization and distances being rendered null and void by technology, borders—at least their physical forms—will in the future, become a thing of the past. Read more

Nov

Bringing Cities to Life with Light

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, Europe, People, USA and Canada

Tags: Berlin, Cape Town, cc, New York

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by Future Cape Town

Light has a tremendous ability to transform a place. The use of light as an artistic medium, and a building as a canvas, can change an otherwise dark street in the city into an inviting, mesmerizing place to gather. Read more

Nov

Exploring Berlin on the Smart Electric Bike

Categories: Bikes, Europe, Transport

Tags: Berlin, cc, electric bike

Comments: 4

by Joe Peach

SMART Ebike und SL 63 AMG FahrprÃ¤sentation in St Tropez

Best known for their 2-seater car, smart are now branching out into electric bikes. This Big City recently got the chance to test-drive their newest model through the streets of Berlin, and here's our verdict. Read more

Nov

Cities WTF? Bike Lanes, Gay Marriage and Saggy Pants

Categories: Europe, Governance, People, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, cocoa, Paris, Toronto

Comments: 6

by Joe Peach

Or perhaps that should read 'no bikes lanes, no gay marriage, no saggy pants'. That's right, this post looks at some of the stupidest ideas coming from cities across the globe in recent days. Sometimes, you need the bad ideas to show you how important the good ideas really are. Read more

Nov

Berlinomics: Power from Trash

Categories: Energy and Services, Europe, Planning

Tags: Berlin, cc, waste

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by Marian Swain

In homes and on streets throughout Berlin there are containers for recycling plastic, glass, paper, organic waste, and everything else. And what the city doesn't recycle, it uses to generate electricity for 100,000 homes. Read more