Building Resilient Cities
Cities worldwide face incredible challenges and opportunities due to demographic shifts, resource depletion, climate change, and the global stresses upon banking. In order to respond, cities urgently need to become more adaptable, efficient, sustainable, and connected - to become ‘smarter’ and more resilient.
Contributors
Events
London Energy Workshop
World cities are leading the movement towards sustainable living and urban resilience. A major concern of this movement is the development of sustainable and smart power delivery. Our next workshop will focus on these challenges in the context of increasing urbanisation and rising energy costs
Categories: London
Knowledge
Developing Scotland’s Cities
Report: The prosperity, well-being and success of our cities is pivotal to Scotland’s economic future. Today’s knowledge-based goods and services are the products of science, creativity and collaboration. Urban density supports the creation and sharing of new knowledge and ideas and eases interaction amongst Universities, hi-Tech Companies, entrepreneurial and cultural networks.
Categories: Governance, Regulation, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Four smart energy schemes in four smart cities
Cities already account for over two-thirds of global power demand. New projects to manage the demand for electricity as the population grows are being adopted worldwide. view a collection of innovative smart energy schemes.
Categories: Energy and water
