Cities face specific challenges and opportunities when it comes to delivering low carbon infrastructure. Some technology that works well in a rural context can’t be transposed to a high-rise city. “Solar on a penthouse at the top of an 80-storey skyscraper just doesn’t have the square metres to generate significant energy,” says Clinton Andrews, director of the Rutgers Centre for Green Building.
Little Rock Merchants Praise ‘road diet’ Revamps for Managing Traffic Flow
When it comes to promoting the peaceful coexistence of traffic and pedestrians on city streets, sometimes less can be more. That is the philosophy behind "road diets," reconfiguring urban roadways to turn four-lane roads into two lanes with a turning lane and leftover...