Mumbai’s rapid growth, high density, and sheer size present significant challenges for its waste management system. The enormous quantity of waste generated in the city makes large-scale, technologically driven “solutions” tempting. However, the opposite approach—a highly decentralized, people-powered model of waste management—has proven successful
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Toward Zero Waste: Mumbai's Informal Recycling Economy | Sustainable Cities Collective - 1 views
Sustainable Cities - 3 views
Power of Place - 5 Overview - 1 views
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This video presents how the urban complex of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague threatens to intrude upon the rural spaces between the three cities, and how the Dutch government seeks to preserve a sustainable urban environment. [Submitted by John Jordan]
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Urbanisation - 1 views
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Trace the past and future expansion of the world's biggest cities with the BBCs interactive map (urbanisation and urban growth) The world in 2050: leading experts give their forecasts for the urban future Making cities work: Detroit, Mexico City, Moscow and China Rural to urban migrants speak out.
BBC News - Audio slideshow: Chicago's doomed spire - 3 views
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Slide show with commentary about the high rise in Chicago and how this was the city to watch for the 20th Century and how cities might re-assess their need to build up as a traditional CBD. Helps to establish the idea of a CBD based on building height with Bid Rent and Burgess. [Submitted by Chris Stephenson]
Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again | Grist - 1 views
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tearing down a busy, elevated freeway, re-daylighting the river that had been buried beneath it, and creating a spectacular downtown green space, all in under two and a half years — is nothing short of amazing, not because it actually worked (there was plenty of evidence from other cities to suggest that it could), but because they were able to get public support for it.
Los Angeles - Sustainable City - 1 views
Urban climate change in mega-cities - 0 views
From elephant to estuary: does the 2013 European Green Capital have something to teach ... - 0 views
Mongolia bids to keep city cool with 'ice shield' experiment | Environment | guardian.c... - 2 views
Upgrade your slum - 5 views
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Slum upgrading in Sao Paulo Brazil
Walkable Cities - 3 views
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Interesting Tedx video on changing our dependency on cars and urban sprawl.
37 Things to Consider Before Moving to Portland | Estately Blog - 0 views
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Yep. Urban pull factors, stages in the life cycle, and just plain fun,