It was famously said that Ginger Rogers did everything her dance partner Fred Astaire did but “backwards and in high heels”. It seems the metaphor still holds up for today’s female mayors, although they emphatically wear whatever shoes they like. While things are slowly changing...
Christopher Carey rounds up the key talking points from a recent capitaltribunenews.com City Leadership Forum event attended by transport decision-makers from across Europe. As cities bounce back from COVID-19 and traffic returns, transport leaders are looking to incorporate new tools to improve the safety and...
A new tool aims to help the next generation of tech hubs avoid the common pitfalls associated with rapid change. In a bid to diversify their economies away from legacy industries and to boost resilience, more cities are looking to put themselves on the innovation...
A study by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed the extent to which ride-hailing competition clogs city streets. Working in collaboration with the Institute for Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council of Italy, the paper suggests that cities should use...
Brussels, Dublin, Sofia and Tirana have been selected to pilot the first digital rights governance framework for cities. The framework, developed by the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, UN-Habitat, UCLG and Eurocities, in partnership with Open Society Foundations, aims to help cities put the commitments,...
A citizen-led air quality project in Brussels, Belgium has revealed a striking disparity in pollution levels across the city. Results from the CurieuzenAir initiative – the Belgian capital’s largest ever ‘citizen science’ project on air quality – found that socio-economically vulnerable neighbourhoods were more likely...
Auckland, New Zealand has been ranked as the world’s ‘spongiest’ city by engineering consultancy Arup. The firm’s Global Sponge Cities Snapshot report examined the amount of green space and permeable local soil in seven major global cities – London, New York, Singapore, Auckland, Mumbai, Nairobi...
‘Eat less, move more’ is the simplistic advice often given about how to shed excess pounds. But most people who have tried to lose weight know it is rarely as straightforward as that. A new programme in Leicester is using artificial intelligence to provide more...
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv residents used the city’s official app to buy transport tickets and pay for parking but overnight it has been transformed into a life-saving tool. The Kyiv Digital app – which has 1.5 million users – now warns residents...
Cities are using data and new digital tools to help businesses recover from the pandemic and adapt for the future. Sarah Wray explores how these efforts are working out. Covid-19 lockdowns and turbulence over the past two years hit high streets and urban centres hard....
