New York City has unveiled designs for its first micro-unit apartment buildings.
The ‘My Micro NY’ proposal is the winner of the adAPT NYC competition, which was launched in …
Providing enough good quality, affordable housing is one of the biggest challenges faced by cities. Could more 'compact communities’ offer the answer?
At the beginning of …
Glasgow has been awarded £24 million of government investment to demonstrate how a city of the future will work.
Glasgow beat off competition from 30 other cities across the …
The Toyota Prius C has been named the greenest vehicle by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEE).
In its 15th annual ‘Green car list’, the compact …
Ford and Whirlpool are amongst a group of companies that have joined forces to demonstrate how they can slash the electricity bills and carbon footprint of a typical US …
As recent figures have shown, the number electric vehicles and hybrids on our roads rose significantly throughout 2012. This in part is down to government incentives; in the …
The numbers of alternative fuelled vehicles hitting the roads in the UK and North America reached a record high during 2012.
According to the latest figures released by the …
With the rising trend in mobile workers, Marriott is piloting a service that will make booking office space as flexible as booking a hotel room.
Called Workspace on Demand, …
31 Dec. 2012 —
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Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
By the end of 2013, nearly 400,000 plug-in electric vehicles will be driving on roads around the world, according to a new white paper by Pike Research.
The study predicts …
20 Dec. 2011 —
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Joe Peach, This Big City
This blog post first appeared on thisbigcity.
London’s first pop-up shopping mall has finally opened, after originally being slated for a Summer launch. Located in east …