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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
The headline on a recent editorial in the Seattle Times says it all: "Focus on data, not good intentions, to combat homelessness." As it has for the past five years, Seattle's point-in-time count of the homeless climbed this year. Given that "by...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter
"Poor housing linked to rising asthma cases in Europe," reads a recent EURACTIV headline. Damp and moldy buildings, bad heating, poor insulation are all suspect. In fact in Bulgaria, the article suggests 46.5% of the population is unable to keep...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
I'm sure most of us walk by homeless people on the streets or drive by their encampments and wonder how they got there – and what it would take to get them into a better place. Andrew Funk, an American entrepreneur living in Barcelona, not only...
Article - 05/03/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
There's lots of wind in Berwickshire, a historic Scottish county that borders the North Sea. There's also some innovating thinking blowing through too. Case in point: The local housing charity partnered with a renewable energy charity to harness...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
We continue our Quick Takes series with a look at some intriguing initiatives communities are undertaking to bolster their affordable housing stock and/or make existing housing more affordable. What’s notable in some of these examples is that they...
Article - 04/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Visionaries from the ranks of social entrepreneurship to K-12 STEM education are gathering this week at Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA for DigiFabCon. The event is billed as an exploration of how the...
Article - 03/29/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Wellness
A troubling report out of the UK notes that not only are some four million households living in cold, damp properties -- but efforts to end fuel poverty are stagnating. In light of that, it's heartening to learn about three borough councils working...
Article - 12/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter