In 2018 Ecocity Buiders has been working in partnership with UN Environment and the local government, local NGOs, institutions of higher education, and neighborhood organizations...
Category - Ecocities in Action
People, cities and organizations creating real change towards ecocities, worldwide. Projects, policies, victories, and more.
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 18: Munich, Germany: Compact – Urban – Green
In 1998, Munich adopted Perspective Munich, a new general plan with a promising ecocity mantra: compact – urban – green. To reach that goal, the City has been fighting...
Seattle Plans to Shape Its Autonomous Vehicle Future
Autonomous vehicles, or AVs, could either help or hurt cities depending on whether they increase or decrease walking, bicycling, transit use and various forms of ridesharing...
Earth Week 2018 Inspires Students to Action
Did you know the way we design our cities can affect our environment? Did you know you can wear a climate solution? Did you know climate change is a social justice problem? Guest...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 15- Mollet del Valles, Spain: Agriculture as Recreation
Mollet del Valles has beautifully merged conservation, local sustainable agriculture, historic preservation, environmental education and recreational open space in Gallecs, a...
Reflections, Issue 25: Eco-city or Automotive City? Policies and Plans for Autonomous Vehicles
This paper identifies a sometimes over-optimistic trend in thinking about a future with autonomous vehicles (AVs). These are often depicted as robot-chauffeured cars providing low...
Cusco, Peru: A Participatory Approach to Creating a Healthy Urban Metabolism
This is the first entry in a series entitled “Urban Metabolism: Shifting city resource flows from linear toward circular,” a collaboration by the Global Initiative for...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 10, Nijmegen, Netherlands: Room for the river
Nijmegen, 2018 European Green Capital, fights climate change with renewable energy, compact development and a transportation system that puts bicycles in the driver’s seat...
Welcome to the Greenway: Engaging Vancouver, Canada
On March 2016, the City of Vancouver purchased 42 acres of land from Canadian Pacific Railway. This strip of land, called the Arbutus corridor, was a former railway. The Canadian...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 8: Ljubljana, Slovenia: River as centerpiece
Ljubljana, home to 283,000 people, is the capital of Slovenia, the mountainous republic surrounded by Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. After years of car-centric planning in...