Parks and green space

The living lab, built on a greenfield site in Saudi Arabia and home to The Line smart city, is also establishing a protected area and conserving 95 per cent of its region.   Neom plans to aid the restoration of degraded land and repair of wildlife habitats Neom, a region in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red […]

A raft of measures in the 2022-23 draft budget include creating new open space, protecting parks, progressing the Power Melbourne project and cutting emissions.   Melbourne has committed more than $26m to protect parks and gardens The City of Melbourne is investing more than $50m to combat climate change and create a greener more sustainable […]

Shanghai Lingang Special Area, which aims to attract some of the world’s most prominent companies, seeks to embed sustainability and nature at its heart.   Abundant green spaces will play a key role in absorbing excess rainwater International architecture firm Ennead Architects has unveiled the masterplan for the Shanghai Lingang Special Area, a new hub […]

The park area aims to deliver a community connection in a dense urban setting with a third of the area planted with 6,000-plus shrubs, perennials, climbers and trees, significant to indigenous culture, food, and medicine.   Part of the play area of the new park in downtown Vancouver The City of Vancouver has opened what […]

C40 is inviting creative multidisciplinary teams – including architects, developers, community groups and more – to compete to design and develop climate-friendly urban projects.   Izmir in Turkey is one of the participating cities The third edition of Reinventing Cities urban design competition to transform underutilised sites into low-carbon urban projects has been announced. Reinventing […]

The Ion innovation centre and forthcoming Ion District urban community have joined the Global Network of Innovation Districts, established to provide governments and investors with new insights as they re-energise cities.   Ion District: an accessible, walkable, and integrated urban community in Houston The Global Network of Innovation Districts (GIID) has selected Houston’s Midtown innovation […]

Intended to blur the lines between nature and the built environment, Park Habitat has been designed as a living structure and forms part of an overall campus vision which blends housing, workspace, retail, public space and amenities.   Park Habitat in San Jose. Rendering by Hayes Davidson, courtesy of Westbank San Jose has broken ground […]

Through the Stake for the Planet project, owners of PlanetWatch’s tokens known as Planets can stake the digital assets in their Algorand blockchain wallet to earn a reward, which will ultimately allow them to plant a tree using the Treedom platform.   It is estimated that the Earth has an additional one billion hectares capacity […]

The City Plan will guide the council’s current and future plans including a focus on climate action, greening of streets, its parklands management strategy, infrastructure and asset maintenance plans.   Plan will consider whether the CBD will be the workforce base for the next 20 years The City of Adelaide has released an updated City […]

Seoul Metropolitan Government is testing two new models of electric vehicle chargers as well as replacing 2,941 old security lights with IoT-embedded LED lighting.     Seoul has pledged to provide 200,000 EV charging stations by 2025     Seoul Metropolitan Government is testing two new models of electric vehicle (EV) chargers to support its […]