Tag: Sustainable Cities

  • How Sustainable Design Makes Our Cities Safer

    As cities in the developing world continue to grow, so do their traffic safety concerns. Latin America, for instance, now sees three times as many deaths from traffic crashes as Europe, the vast majority of which occur in cities. Vulnerable road users are particularly at risk: Older pedestrians and cyclists can account for up to 45 percent of…

  • Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’

    Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…

  • Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’

    Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…

  • Paolo Soleri, Arcosanti and sustainable cities

    In 1971 Italian Architect Paolo Soleri, after having studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Arizona, purchased a large plot of land in the high desert 60 miles north of Phoenix and began…

  • Paolo Soleri, Arcosanti and sustainable cities

    In 1971 Italian Architect Paolo Soleri, after having studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Arizona, purchased a large plot of land in the high desert 60 miles north of Phoenix and began…