Egypt 🇪🇬 is building a 2000km high-speed rail network, with top speeds of 230km/h 🚅🚅
🚅 When finished it will be the
1️⃣ 6th largest high speed rail network in the world,
2️⃣ connecting 60 cities & 90 million people,
3️⃣ reducing carbon emissions by 70%.
They understood the assignment ➡️
Berlin 🇩🇪 Public Transport 🚌🚇🚃 can now be used cash-less, as we write the year 2021.
The ad @BVG_Kampagne is wild👇👇 https://t.co/xtJuMrD3LY
Ich gebe zu, ich bin ja auch so einer der Generation (insert appropriate letter here), die quasi mit der Autorealität der 70er und 80er Jahre groß geworden ist und eine Weile gebraucht hat um zu checken, was eigentlich der normale Zustand sein sollte.
Jetzt nachhaltige Mobilität entdecken und mit internationalen Experten austauschen 🚶♂️🚶♀️🚲🚎
👉Onlinekurs: Transforming Urban Mobility - Introduction to Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities
Ab 4. Oktober für 4 Wochen
🇬🇧: https://t.co/P39e7mgUhL
🇪🇸: https://t.co/lsdepcFB4T
Aerial photograph looking south over Manhattan, circa 1931. Compact and connected planning for a great public transport, walking and cycling city🚲🚶♂️🚇
This is leadership➡️ Paris 🇫�� plans to open up the city centre for walking, cycling and quality of life🚶♂️🚲 🌳
➡️ Busses, Taxis and resident’s cars are permitted 🚘🚍🚕
HT @Lelievre_Adrien
The value of land is governed by its accessibility and by the reasonable time to reach it.
Comparing accessibility of a 19th century urban grid pattern Vs. a post 1950 suburban cul-de-sac pattern 👇
How far can you go by
🚗car in 2m
🚲cycling in 5m
🚶walking in 10m
The Barcelona 🇪🇸 superblocks are about so much more than traffic calming.
Superblocks are about nurturing social cohesion by putting human interactions back at the centre of communities and developing the full potential of streets👇�
Transitioning to water-resilient cities will require collaborative action and alignment across hydrologically linked regions as well as public sectors at various levels of government.
Please do also have a look at this great resource on 'The resilient infrastructure opportunity' by @hallegatte @junrentschler @julierozenberg
https://t.co/KdKvPMfmgw
We are currently preparing a publication - to be launched this fall - which will capture the holistic thinking and best practices required to create more resilient cities and transport systems. Stay tuned.
Here is just one great example to increase urban water resilience👇
Rotterdam’s Water Plazas. A series of connected community squares that can capture up to 1.7 million liters of water in the case of extreme weather events.
A key task of urban planning in the age of the climate crisis is to increase water retention in human settlements to cushion extreme weather events. A variety of options is available 👇
The conditions we have been used to and have historically designed most of our urban developments around, are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
In the time of intensifying natural disasters, infrastructures are under pressure to deliver resilient and reliable services.