In the second part of our interview with Timothy Papandreou – Director of Strategic Planning & Policy at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) – we asked him about car-free streets and ecomobility. Q: You attended the EcoMobility Festival in Suwon, where the neighborhood was closed to cars for a month. How was it?
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! ICLEI Stories World Summit Climate & Territories will contribute to developing a credible roadmap for limiting global warming to 2°C Cities begin to TAP potential for COP21 City Stories Inside Venice’s bid to hold back the
We conducted a series of interviews at our Resilient Cities 2015 congress. Here, Anne Odic of the Agence Française de Développement talks about how cities can finance their projects.
Singapore is a densely populated metropolis, with more than five million inhabitants living on a small area of 716km2 of land. In livable city surveys over the last few years – including Mercer’s Quality of Living Survey of 2014 – Singapore is one of the few high-density cities to rank highly in terms of livability.
Recently we sat down with Timothy Papandreou – Director of Strategic Planning & Policy at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) – and asked him about the challenges and opportunities in the city. Below is his response. We are a city of 120km2, so we are actually quite small. We have about 825,000 people
A talk show at an international conference? It works! Guests Richard Friend (Institute of Social and Environmental Transition in Bangkok), Cassidy Johnson (University College London), Anna Sjödin (City of Karlstad, Sweden) and Aditya V. Bahadur (Overseas Development Institute, London) were interviewed by Cynthia Rosenzweig (Urban Climate Change Research Network), contributing from their different perspectives, from
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Resilience is a difficult issue to communicate: the challenge is to generate just the correct amount and type of awareness and shock to motivate action at all levels, rather than generating resistance. The
Between 2011 and 2012, three hurricanes struck New York City, seriously damaging the city’s coasts. For example, Hurricane Sandy caused $19 billion in damage, left 2 million people without power, and flooded 17% of the city’s land mass. Moreover, 1.1 million children were unable to attend school, and there were 44 fatalities. Jaime Torres-Springer, Partner
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. They are still young, yet they are well worth discussing: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was born during the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! ICLEI Stories Cities commit to cut over 1 billion ton of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 on carbonn Climate Registry All roads lead to Paris at Resilient Cities 2015 closing plenary ICLEI Member cities demonstrate climate
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