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...
Category - Real cities
Real ecocities being created.
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...
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...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 7: Bristol, United Kingdom: Incubating change
Bristol describes itself as a “Laboratory for Change”. In awarding the 2015 title of European Green Capital to this city of 441,000 in South West England, the judges highlighted...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 6: Copenhagen, Denmark: Good cycle karma
To “Copenhagenize” means to design cities for bikes rather than cars. Not surprisingly, Copenhagen sits atop the Copenhagenize Index, an international measure of a city’s bike...
New approaches to ecocities: The Cleveland Model
Cleveland, Ohio is not the first city that comes to my mind when I hear the word “ecocity”. Where are the natural armatures, the glass high rises gleaming with sunlight, the self...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 5: Nantes, France: City of eco-neighborhoods
Nantes’ past, present and future are built on water. Located on the Loire River roughly 30 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, Nantes was historically a harbor city. But in the 1980s...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 4: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Growing up – not out
Vitoria-Gasteiz is a walkable city and it aims to stay that way. This city of 242,000 people is the capital of the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain as well as the...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 3: Hamburg, Germany: The business of sustainability
Hamburg proves that “greener” and “growing” are not mutually exclusive terms. Located 50 miles up the Elbe Estuary from the North Sea, Hamburg is Germany’s second-largest city and...