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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
19 Dec. 2012 —
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Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
From apps to LEDs and electric cars to urban infrastructure, it’s that time of year when we look back at what’s been most popular in the 2degrees Smart Cities working group …