Here Are the 33 Knight Cities Challenge Winners
Now in its third year, the Knight Cities Challenge awards $5 million to help bring ideas for parks, open gov, urban investment and more to fruition. Projects come from individuals, universities,...
View ArticleHousing finance companies shares hit new high in weak market
Shares of housing finance companies (HFCs) were trading higher by up to 4%, extending its past week rally, after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered risk-weights assigned to home loans lent on or...
View ArticleThe man with cities on his mind
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani hasn't just written definitive reference works on urban planning and shaped a generation of ETH architects; he has also run numerous projects of his own. Now, the...
View ArticleRoom to Think: The Rise of Still Spaces in the Workplace
Quiet is a “think tank of the soul,” says Gordon Hempton, a sound recording specialist and co-author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Quiet. It is in quiet spaces that our...
View ArticleExploring the ‘Middle Ground’ between State and Market Housing System
Studies of housing systems lying in the ‘middle ground’ between state and market are subject to three important shortcomings. First, the widely used Esping-Andersen approach assesses only a subset of...
View ArticleA UK train station’s tribute to a famous mathematician got everything right...
A new train station opened last month in the British university town of Cambridge. In promotional materials for the new station, both the building’s architect and its operating company said the...
View ArticleUnemployment is Up Because ‘Make in India’, Other Official Schemes Aren’t...
Unemployment is a major hurdle in India’s growth path. One key election promise of the BJP government in 2014 was job creation. Criticising the UPA government for failing to provide employment, the BJP...
View ArticleUnesco defers Ahmedabad's World Heritage nomination
AHMEDABAD: The quest of Ahmedabad to become India's first World Heritage Cityhas suffered a setback. Unesco's World Heritage Committee (WHC) has informed the Indian government that it has deferred...
View ArticleOslo's car ban sounded simple enough. Then the backlash began
When a progressive political alliance took power over Oslo’s city council in October 2015, they had made one of their first priorities a greener and more liveable environment in the city. With an...
View ArticlePR: Autodesk and the Urban Arts Collective Launch Hip Hop Architecture Camps
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to inspire more students in underserved communities to consider design fields, the Urban Arts Collective, a non-profit focused on increasing...
View ArticlePalace Museum's new barriers criticized, officials say they are 'more suitable'
Beijing's Palace Museum has responded to online speculation about its new barriers, saying that the marble replacements for the old metal railings are "more suitable" given the surrounding...
View ArticleFrom Rs 95 to Rs 3,000 in 5 years; after 3,000% jump, this stock is still a buy
With nearly 100 per cent annualised return in last five years, shares of Can Fin HomesBSE 0.87 % have delivered over 3,000 per cent return to investors between June, 2012 and June, 2017. The scrip has...
View ArticleCities – Regions – Hinterlands in the early modern and modern era
Session Coordinators: Dieter Schott (TU Darmstadt), Sabine Barles (University of Paris I)
View ArticleHome as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities 1933-1945...
Together with the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS) and the Institut de Sciences Sociales du Politique (Université Paris Nanterre-ENS Paris Saclay-CNRS), the George and Irina Schaeffer Center...
View ArticleMapping expenditure: 80% Smart City funds for just 2.7% of city area
Eighty per cent of the proposed central government investment in its flagship Smart City mission will flow to well-developed pockets that account for only 2.7 per cent of the cumulative area of cities...
View ArticleImage-building in bond market challenge for PMC
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation has to ensure its accounts are prepared on time, their audit is carried out by an independent agency, financial and operational data is made public and it complies...
View Article1, 000-Year-Old Colored Glass Beads Discovered in West Africa
A newly discovered treasure trove of more than 10,000 colorful glass beads, as well as evidence of glassmaking tools, suggests that an ancient city in southwestern Nigeria was one of the first places...
View ArticleThe lost genius of the Post Office
When Americans think about the most innovative agency in the government, they think about the Pentagon or NASA. But throughout much of its history, that title could just as easily have fallen to the...
View ArticleIndia Looks to Build 11-Million-Person City on Empty Farm Land
Andhra Pradesh is being split in two, and India is building a new capital for the portion of the state that will keep the Andhra name. The city will reside on what was banana fields and other...
View ArticleIndia's 'locked up' land is enough to build housing for all, experts say
MUMBAI - India should use excess land held by government agencies to meet its goal of providing housing for all by 2022, experts and activists said, as the country struggles with rising conflicts over...
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