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"Movement Is Therapy": Indian Woman Highlights How Singapore's Infrastructure Shapes Lifestyle
The video was shared with the caption that even after four months in the city, she is still not over how it manages to function so well.
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Smart Cities Start With People, Not Technology: Study
African cities are growing at an incredible pace. With this growth comes a mix of opportunity and challenge. How do we build cities that are not only smart but also fair, inclusive and resilient?
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Many Cities In US To Turn Ghost Town By 2100, Says Study
The study's authors noted that the significant decrease in population could pose unprecedented challenges, potentially resulting in disruptions to essential services such as transportation, clean water, electricity, and internet access.
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Kanye West Announces Plans To Build A City In Middle East, Internet Dubs It "Yecosystem"
Kanye West is once again making headlines with his grand ambitions, this time unveiling his plans to build a self-sustaining city in the Middle East called DROAM.
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Urban InVEST Is a Free, Open-Source Software That Can Help Design Sustainable Cities: All the Details
Urban InVEST, a new software developed by Stanford Natural Capital Project, could help city planners and developers visualise the areas where investment in nature — including parks and marshlands — is needed. Urban InVEST aids in designing cities, helping nature and the people by protecting them from calamities such as floods and improving thei...
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Dehradun And Shimla Makes It Into Centre's Smart City List
Dehradun and Shimla made to the third and final list of the Smart City Mission announced at the National Workshop on Urban Transformation in New Delhi.
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Healthy City Design Can Reduce Growth of Diseases
Healthy city design and planning in densely populated countries like India can reduce growing epidemics, injuries and non-communicable (NCD) diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, finds a new study.
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'Chennai Floods an Eye Opener for City Planners': Experts
The severe flooding in Chennai caused by torrential rains is a result of climate change and should be an eye opener for city planners, experts here have warned.
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Financial Support to States Much More Than UPA: M Venkaiah Naidu
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today said that financial support to states and urban local bodies committed by the Centre was Rs three lakh crore over the next five to six years under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) as compared to Rs 36,000 crore during 2005-14.
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Centre's Guidelines Awaited for Smart City Project
Even as the Union Cabinet gave its nod to NDA government's flagship smart city project last month, no city from Maharashtra has yet been included in the programme as the Centre's guidelines are awaited for it, an official said.
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Puducherry to Present Plan to Select it Under 'Smart City Scheme'
Puducherry government has initiated steps to prepare a detailed letter to focus the "eligible parameters that Puducherry possess for being identified as smart city," Welfare and Tourism Minister P Rajavelu said on Thursday.
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Indonesian Capital Bets on Web Drive to Lift Fortunes
The Indonesian capital -- a chaotic metropolis with shaky Internet access -- is hoping to turn its fortunes around with an ambitious online platform that allows residents to report problems, from crime to traffic jams, with their smartphones.
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"Movement Is Therapy": Indian Woman Highlights How Singapore's Infrastructure Shapes Lifestyle
The video was shared with the caption that even after four months in the city, she is still not over how it manages to function so well.
-
Smart Cities Start With People, Not Technology: Study
African cities are growing at an incredible pace. With this growth comes a mix of opportunity and challenge. How do we build cities that are not only smart but also fair, inclusive and resilient?
-
Many Cities In US To Turn Ghost Town By 2100, Says Study
The study's authors noted that the significant decrease in population could pose unprecedented challenges, potentially resulting in disruptions to essential services such as transportation, clean water, electricity, and internet access.
-
Kanye West Announces Plans To Build A City In Middle East, Internet Dubs It "Yecosystem"
Kanye West is once again making headlines with his grand ambitions, this time unveiling his plans to build a self-sustaining city in the Middle East called DROAM.
-
Urban InVEST Is a Free, Open-Source Software That Can Help Design Sustainable Cities: All the Details
Urban InVEST, a new software developed by Stanford Natural Capital Project, could help city planners and developers visualise the areas where investment in nature — including parks and marshlands — is needed. Urban InVEST aids in designing cities, helping nature and the people by protecting them from calamities such as floods and improving thei...
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Dehradun And Shimla Makes It Into Centre's Smart City List
Dehradun and Shimla made to the third and final list of the Smart City Mission announced at the National Workshop on Urban Transformation in New Delhi.
-
Healthy City Design Can Reduce Growth of Diseases
Healthy city design and planning in densely populated countries like India can reduce growing epidemics, injuries and non-communicable (NCD) diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, finds a new study.
-
'Chennai Floods an Eye Opener for City Planners': Experts
The severe flooding in Chennai caused by torrential rains is a result of climate change and should be an eye opener for city planners, experts here have warned.
-
Financial Support to States Much More Than UPA: M Venkaiah Naidu
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today said that financial support to states and urban local bodies committed by the Centre was Rs three lakh crore over the next five to six years under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) as compared to Rs 36,000 crore during 2005-14.
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Centre's Guidelines Awaited for Smart City Project
Even as the Union Cabinet gave its nod to NDA government's flagship smart city project last month, no city from Maharashtra has yet been included in the programme as the Centre's guidelines are awaited for it, an official said.
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Puducherry to Present Plan to Select it Under 'Smart City Scheme'
Puducherry government has initiated steps to prepare a detailed letter to focus the "eligible parameters that Puducherry possess for being identified as smart city," Welfare and Tourism Minister P Rajavelu said on Thursday.
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Indonesian Capital Bets on Web Drive to Lift Fortunes
The Indonesian capital -- a chaotic metropolis with shaky Internet access -- is hoping to turn its fortunes around with an ambitious online platform that allows residents to report problems, from crime to traffic jams, with their smartphones.
