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Alternative fuels: does zero emission vehicle truly exist? Or is mobility waiting for a miracle.
Many cities around the world are facing huge challenges with mobility. The main problems encountered are traffic jams and pollution and both are linked. Today I want to focus on the second point: pollution. And we have a designated culprit: thermal engines. Fossil...
Gurgaon – The Happening City
1. Statement of Problem: The city Gurugram falls in the National Capital region (NCR) and is adjacent to the country (India’s) capital city – the New Delhi. A quick review of the capital city indicates that it is now over populated, facing constant problems with...
Divonne-les-Bains: From Smart Mobility to Smart City
Many consider the already started digital age as the next Industrial Revolution. But considering all the impacts that the digital technologies and solutions might have on almost all the existing aspect and processes of the society, being the industrial, social,...
Is Moscow a Pioneer of Democratic Metropolitan Governance?
1. From the lectures, projects, and practices I learned and saw in Russia, what impressed me the most and why. Typically in a module, half the learning comes from experiencing the brief immersion in another culture. And in typical Russian fashion, I am left with a...
Should the development of Moscow in the last decade be a source of inspiration for other cities in the world ?
Moscow has shown great progress in the past ten years : impressive construction of public transport, housing and recreational areas, significant improvement of climate for businesses and increasing participation from citizens in the life of the city. What enabled...
How to save a city – Tales of Russian single-industry towns
Vorkuta, Kirovsk, Gukovo, Norilsk, Cherepovets, Magnitogorsk… These Russian cities have one thing in common: they are among the 335 monocities that have largely contributed to the industrial expansion of the Soviet Union. Following its collapse and facing dramatical...
Shrinking megaregions? Why not!
Anticipating Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, I saw a few weeks ago an interesting article by Andre Sorensen about shrinking Tokaido megapolis (Japan). That struck me since we used to think that everything alive must grow. The increasing itself (whatever in the economy,...
Moscow as a Smart City
Abstract In June 2018 McKinsey published a report “Smart Cities: Digital Solutions for a More Livable Future” where Moscow was mentioned as one of the top-50 smart cities [1]. It caused a lot of excitement from the governmental side, but this information did not come...
“Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” a Book Review by Andreas Huemer
The design of a city strongly influences how people in the city feel and behave. Whether the result is intentional or not, urban design defines the future of a city and its residents. In his book "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design", Charles...
Le Systeme De Transport Urbain Dans La Region De Dakar – Senegal : Contraintes Et Perspectives
La région de Dakar, qui occupe 0,3% du territoire national, abrite 22% de la population totale du pays avec une population estimée à 3 137 196 habitants recensée en 2013, soit près du quart de la population du pays et une densité estimée à 5 704 personnes/Km2, ce qui...
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