Artificial intelligence to support urban planning
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New York – Sidewalk Labs has presented Delve, a new digital
tool for urban planning. This make it easier for urban developers
to plan neighborhoods through the
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Federal Council ends cooperation with Flugplatz Dübendorf AG
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Bern – The plans to convert Dübendorf Air Base into an area of
mixed use, with a national innovation park, federal military base
and civilian airfield, will
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New fund to support climate-smart cities in developing countries
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New York City – The recently launched City Climate Finance Gap
Fund will help developing and emerging economies finance
climate-smart urban development projects.
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Green suburbs can be more polluting than city centres
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Moscow - Recreational parks can pose as much of a pollution
threat as city centres due to the weaker barrier functions of the
soil. Traditional approaches to
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Green asphalt permanently removes CO2 from the air
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Dornbirn – Asphalt with an aggregate of biochar is being used
for the first time in a city in Austria. If the new mixture meets
expectations, a
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Hamburg wins award for citizen participation in urban planning
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Hamburg – The city of Hamburg is using map-based tools to
encourage citizen participation in urban planning and development.
It has now won an award for its
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Google to help cities drastically reduce carbon emissions
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Mountainview, CA – Google announced that it will help more
than 500 cities and local governments reduce 1 gigaton of carbon
emissions per year by 2030.
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Shenzhen introduces city-wide 5G network
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Shenzhen – The Chinese city of Shenzhen now has in excess of
46,000 base stations for the new 5G mobile telecommunications
technology standard. According to information from
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Fiber-optic cables could boost earthquake prepardness in cities
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Zurich – Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich are using fiber-optic cables to measure
glacial earthquakes. Their work could one day help to
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Zurich is one of world’s smartest cities
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Zurich – The city of Zurich has been placed third worldwide in
this year’s Smart City Index. The report assesses the efforts and
successes of cities in
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Canton of Zurich and SBB plan collaborative cycling and bus projects
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Zurich/Bern – The canton of Zurich is integrating three
cantonal projects for new cycling and bus infrastructures into the
major project Brüttener Tunnel of the SBB and
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New city in China aims to be fully self-sufficient
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Xiong’an New Area – Barcelona-based Guallart Architects has
won a contest to design a resilient and self-sufficient community
in Xiong’an, a new city that Chinese President Xi
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Robot to cut innovative building blocks
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Zurich – Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a hot-wire
cutting robot. It can carve complex shapes out of materials in just
a few steps. The cutter
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Dubai turns to AI to improve public transport and cut emissions
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Dubai – Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority is now using
artificial intelligence and machine learning to plan bus routes
based on actual usage.
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EU funds green smart cities program in ASEAN cities
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Jakarta – The EU is funding a €5 million project to support
sustainable urbanization in ASEAN cities. The project will focus on
smart solutions enabled by digitalization
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Formal railway yard to become green residential neighborhood in St. Petersburg
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St. Petersburg – A former railway yard on Ligosvky Prospekt in
St. Petersburg, Russia, will be transformed into a new residential
district with communal facilities, retail and
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Canton of Zurich to support mobility of the future
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Zurich – The Canton of Zurich has announced that it intends to
support technological developments in passenger and freight
transport in a timely manner and promote them
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French architect firm wins industrial revitalization project in China
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Handan – French architecture firm Dominique Perrault
Architecture has won an international urban design competition to
transform and revitalize Handan’s industrial heritage.
Global real estate market ‘out of control’
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Zurich – The deregulation of real estate markets and the
global stock exchange trade in real estate is ‘out of control’,
says Swiss architect Ernst Hubeli. In
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Barcelona to create more ‘superblocks’ with EU financing
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Barcelona – The European Investment Bank is providing €95
million to Barcelona to promote urban regeneration through
investments in urban design, social infrastructure and energy
efficiency.
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