Oct 03, 2018
Wellbeing Cities 2020 Edition Jury Joan Clos, Former Mayor of Barcelona and Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat Robin Chase, Founder, Zipcar Thakur Singh Powdyel, Former Minister of Education, Government of Bhutan Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA Renato Galliano, Director of the Department for Urban Economy and Labour,…
Oct 01, 2018
Partners | Partenaires Financed by / Financé par Français ci-dessous. Location: Montréal, QC Time: October 8, 2019 The Community Solutions Network is a program of Future Cities Canada funded by Infrastructure Canada to run alongside the Smart Cities Challenge. As the program lead, Evergreen is working with OpenNorth and partners to provide the guidance communities…
Oct 01, 2018
When India created the new state of Chattisgarh in 2000, it needed a new capital city – with government authorities outlining the Naya Raipur Development Plan 2031 for the city to become one of the world’s most advanced and integrated greenfield smart cities and an economic powerhouse. As part of India’s high-level government-led Smart Cities…
Oct 01, 2018
A Global Conversation and Celebration of Wellbeing in Cities 2019 Forum The Wellbeing Cities Forum, in partnership with the City of Montréal and the support of Mayor Valérie Plante, was held in Montréal, Canada, on June 19 – 20, 2019 at the Centre des Sciences. This first edition attracted more than 300 senior leaders from…
Oct 01, 2018
Much of the existing and planned housing stock in North America is premised on lifestyles, technology, and power dynamics of past generations. As a result, much of our housing is unaffordable, unustainable for the planet, and unhealthy for its inhabitants. Creating a new housing reality requires new actors, perspectives and approaches. This event and workshop…
Sep 28, 2018
NewCities has partnered with Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, to present our Big Picture edition on greenfield cities. In March 2018, we explored why cities are built from scratch. We now focus on how these cities are developing and thriving to become a destination – for its citizens and visitors.…
Sep 25, 2018
In a country like India, where the burgeoning population is a never ending issue (the urban population is estimated to reach 600 million by 2030), there can never be enough roads to solve the problem, and needless to state the shortage of quality housing estimated at 19 million households. Moreover, with another 230 million Indians…
Sep 25, 2018
How can you create a sustainable, vibrant and livable city from scratch? This is a question my team at Sweco and I had to answer in 2016 when asked to develop the Masterplan for one of Sri Lanka’s largest and most controversial urban development projects – the Port City. With our urban planning experience and…
Sep 25, 2018
China’s lifting of 800 million people out of poverty is the greatest humanitarian miracle of the post-war era. A combination of urbanization and special economic zones was responsible for China’s success. Shenzhen, for example, was a fishing village with 30,000 residents in 1980 when it was declared one of the country’s first special economic zones.…
Sep 25, 2018
Starting from the 1990s, over 100 new city projects have been launched around the world. This number does not include China, which has hundreds of its own state-driven new city projects underway. While some new cities have attracted tens of thousands of residents, others join the growing herd of white elephant projects that are stalled…
Sep 25, 2018
This article was originally posted by Forbes. Thirty years ago hardly anybody other than a Shanghai local would have found any reason to mutter the word “Pudong.” At that time, the place where the vibrant financial center that we know today now sits — the iconic skyline of the city — simply didn’t exist. To…
Sep 13, 2018
NewCities has partnered with Citi, the largest affordable housing lender in the United States, to present key perspectives on securing affordable housing in cities worldwide. Presented by:
