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Nov 19, 2024 | 
urbanet.info | Laura Puttkamer
By Laura Puttkamer|November 19th 2024|Resilient Cities and Climate|
Can 24,000 minds solve the world’s urban woes? Laura Puttkamer delves into WUF12’s ambitious agenda in Cairo, where gender parity and African voices took centre stage in reimagining our cities’ future. “It all starts at home” was the motto of UN-Habitat’s 12th World Urban Forum, a biennial gathering of urban experts from all over the world.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
On October 29, 2024, the city of Barcelona hosted the prestigious European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024, a biennial award that celebrates exceptional efforts to create, restore, and improve public spaces in European cities. This year’s award recognized two outstanding projects: the Warsaw Uprising Hill Park in Poland and the transformative beach improvement and port redevelopment project in Porto do Son, Spain.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
This year’s Landscape Festival in Bergamo, Italy, is all about current crises and the levers that landscape architecture can pull to minimize their negative effects. It starts on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 with a Garden Masterclass led by plant sociologist Nigel Dunnet. The 14th Landscape Festival is taking place this year in Bergamo, around 50 kilometers from Milan.This year’s motto is “Facing the crisis”.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
The soccer fan zones were places of high emotions during Euro 2024. But are they also places of sustainability, as promised by the host country Germany? Looking at the artificial turf installed in Berlin, the country’s largest fan zone, shows that there might be some problems with microplastics.
Euro 2024 has come to an end after many highs and lows. Fans were watching the games in fan zones throughout Germany.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
As a society, we are all responsible for dealing with the consequences of summer heat, drought and heavy rainfall, says Oliver Runge, Managing Partner of Runge GmbH & Co. KG.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
Cities
As urban areas continue to expand, the “urban heat island” effect intensifies, making cities significantly warmer than their rural surroundings. This phenomenon, caused primarily by the absorption and retention of heat by buildings and asphalt, is exacerbated by the decrease in vegetative cover.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
toposmagazine.com | Laura Puttkamer
Issues Issues Paris is tripling its parking fees for SUVs from September 2024, in Vienna drivers have been paying a fine of 365 euros since last autumn if they obstruct public transport by parking incorrectly, and in Singapore car buyers have had to purchase a Certificate of Entitlement since 1990 in addition to the car, registration fee and taxes, which currently amounts to the equivalent of 106,000 US dollars. More and more cities have started to charge drivers to pay to combat gridlock and...
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
urbanet.info | Laura Puttkamer
By Laura Puttkamer|March 1st 2024|Resilient Cities and Climate|
Since COP28 in Dubai in December 2023, the role of cities and local governments in implementing climate and sustainability goals has come to the forefront. At the recently concluded United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 6) in Nairobi, the Cities Summit on February 23rd focused on localising climate action, Laura Puttkamer reports.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
beesmart.city | Laura Puttkamer
Estonia’s capital city Tallinn is one of the most advanced smart cities in the world. The city by the Baltic Sea is also the cultural hub of Estonia, retaining a beautiful walled Old Town with the famous defensive tower Kiek in de Kök. Many cafés and shops, cobblestoned streets, a Gothic Town Hall and a church from the 13th century make Tallinn a unique and historic city. But where does the title “Tallinn digital city” come from?
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
beesmart.city | Laura Puttkamer
Estlands Hauptstadt Tallinn ist eine der fortschrittlichsten Smart Cities der Welt. Die Stadt an der Ostsee ist zugleich das kulturelle Zentrum Estlands und verfügt über eine wunderschöne ummauerte Altstadt mit dem berühmten Wehrturm Kiek in de Kök. Zahlreiche Cafés und Geschäfte, kopfsteingepflasterte Straßen, ein gotisches Rathaus und eine Kirche aus dem 13. Jahrhundert machen Tallinn zu einer einzigartigen und historischen Stadt. Aber woher kommt der Titel einer digitalen Stadt?
