MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II
The MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II is now available on Coursera! You will learn to: Dedicated to all levels of disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences,...
Category: Environment
The interactive atlas of climate change
The IPCC has recently published their sixth assessment report on the physical evidence of climate change. The report has again confirmed evidence of climate change across all global regions, which will affect rainfall patterns,...
Mapping electric networks and carbon intensity: how data can inform environmental choices
Where does your electricity come from? Does your country’s energy portfolio rely mostly on fossil fuels like coal and gas or renewable sources like wind and hydro-electric? The web platform electricity map allows to answer...
Is urbanization the solution to environmental crisis?
Increasing urbanization is a fact, with more than half of the world’s inhabitants living in cities. Cities are often perceived as a problem, but could they be the solution? A thought-provoking article by Kim...
What does the future of air transport look like after Covid-19?
The global pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 disease has implied a dramatic reduction of air travel all over the world. Companies have been forced to shrink their operations to the bone, while...
The Million Neighborhoods initiative: mapping spatial inequalities within cities.
The Million Neighborhoods Map is a groundbreaking visual tool that provides the first comprehensive look at informal settlements across Africa, helping to identify communities most in need of roads, power, water, sanitation and other infrastructure. Updates...
How will climate change impact European regions?
The European Environmental Agency has recently published a cartographic platform to map the impact of global warming on droughts, floods, agriculture, forest fires and sea level rise in Europe. These maps are based on...
The Atlas of urban expansion- how do cities grow?
The Atlas of Urban Expansion collects and analyzes data on the quantity and quality of urban expansion in a stratified global sample of 200 cities. With the aid of satellite images researchers have gathered a...
Termites and the megalopolis
A recently published study in Current Biology has shown that a species of termites has been colonising a huge area of Brazil – its surface is equivalent to that of Great Britain- in the past...
Where people run in major cities
Interestingly…. they prefere parks and river sides :-(((( What a new information!!!! Where People Run
Tomorrow’s world
A guide to the next 150 years by BBC news graphics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
Dissection of cities
I don’t know what we can learn from the physical dissection of cities: maybe some fractal analysis could work? see the website Berlin: New York City: and other cities in the website (made by...
Remote sensing tracks relentless urban spread
Looking back through the decades, these snapshots from space — created exclusively for CNN by NASA’s Landsat department in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey — reveal the impact of the vast population shift...
Sospiri bridge in Venice…. sustainable for Toyota?
sospiri….. good for Toyota