Oct 29, 2024 | October 2024, Urban Policies
By 2050, cities – long celebrated as hubs of resilience and innovation – will be home to more than two-thirds of the world’s population. Precisely because they host a large concentration of people, services, and infrastructure, urban areas have...
Oct 29, 2024 | October 2024, Urban Policies
Cities as GHG emitters Cities occupy around 3% of the land’s surface but are responsible for 70% of all carbon dioxide emissions [3]. The disproportionate contribution of urban areas to GHG emissions can partly be attributed to city planning and layout. Most...
Apr 30, 2023 | North America
Cop City In September 2021, Atlanta approved plans to lease 85 acres of public land that was earmarked as a public park to the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) for 10 USD/year [4]. The foundation announced plans to build a police and firefighter training facility on...
