Tag Archives: Urbanisation
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Five innovative ways to combat the housing crisis
From modular commuter villages to innovative finance models, developers are finding new, inventive solutions to tackle the UK housing crisis
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Are cities ready for new demographics?
Headline global statistics highlighting growing urban populations mask slowing rates of growth in some developed countries and many cities remain woefully underprepared for the unprecedented demographic shifts underway
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Three ways to tackle urbanisation
With nearly 70 per cent of the world’s population expected to live in towns and cities by 2050, rapid urbanisation is one of the biggest challenges of our time, putting unprecedented pressure on transportation systems, utilities and the environment. But emerging technologies are affording new, smarter ways to maintain, build and interact with infrastructure in an effort to make urbanisation more manageable
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How medical drones can help save lives
Hospitals and clinics in congested urban areas and remote locations are trialling deliveries of urgent medical supplies by drones and mini-planes
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Urbanisation breathing innovative new life into cities
As well as major challenges, growing urbanisation presents big opportunities to build better, sustainable cities for the future, according to the World Economic Forum
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Future cities have to get even smarter
Urbanisation poses immense challenges, but is also an opportunity to create digital super towns and cities, with a wired-up and connected approach to everyday needs and problems. Here are three examples
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What being ‘smart’ means for cities
Businesses and the wider community must embrace constant change and lifelong learning to benefit fully from intelligent and responsive digital cities
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10 ways tech can cure big-city headaches
From noisy airports and traffic jams to crime and anti-social behaviour, city life is full of annoyances. But what if technology could solve these problems? Here are ten ways it can help