Monthly Focus: Sustainable Cities

How do we make our cities smarter, greener, happier places to live? Creative thinking in transport, building, food policy, urban habitats and technology offers inspired solutions.

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Biodiversity begins in your backyard
Biodiversity begins in your backyard

The green cor­ridors cre­ated by back­yard biod­iversity provide an import eco­lo­gical link, con­nect­ing the urban hab­itat to its rural counterpart.

Show Us Your City: Reclaim Land, Singapore
Show Us Your City: Reclaim Land, Singapore

Is there room to trans­form a city into com­munity in the densely-packed, highly-regulated envir­on­ment that Singa­pore presents? Reclaim Land asks, “whose city is it, anyway?”

Big Green Idea: new ways to make waste work
Big Green Idea: new ways to make waste work

One Aus­tralian com­munity garden is lead­ing the way for­ward by turn­ing green waste into biochar, to sequester car­bon and com­post, to cre­ate health­ier, more fer­tile environments.

Show Us Your City: This Is My Auckland
Show Us Your City: This Is My Auckland

The cafes and city res­id­ents, with their col­our and diversity, are all adored aspects of Amber Parkin’s urban land­scape. Will you show us your city?

Urban farming: Ginza Farm’s rice harvest
Urban farming: Ginza Farm’s rice harvest

Jared Braiter­man takes part in a rare ritual — a rice har­vest in the heart of Tokyo — as neigh­bor­hood work­ers and shop­pers enjoy a new pub­lic space that evokes Japan­ese culture.

Preston is my Paris: creativity close to home
Preston is my Paris: creativity close to home

Cre­ativ­ity and com­munity are key aspects of this pro­ject, which seeks to unlock the cre­ativ­ity of res­id­ents and explore new per­spect­ives in famil­iar ter­rit­ory, the small city of Pre­ston in the UK.