New Year’s resolutions for your city, your planet, and you
Urban guerrillas in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Claudio Olivares Medina/Flickr.
Happy New Year, readers! It’s that time of year again – the annual establishing and kick-off of New Year’s resolutions. But this year, let’s take a different approach. It’s easy to make lofty New Year’s resolutions that make an impact ...
Better Cities, Better Business at Transforming Transportation 2014 conference
Boy on bicycle in Burkina Faso. Photo by Olivier Girard/CIFOR. Cropped.
Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14) is just around the corner! Now in its eleventh year and vibrant as ever with new ideas and energy, the Transforming Transportation conference – co-organized by EMBARQ and the World Bank – convenes high-level decision makers ...
A people-friendly Times Square, just in time for New Year’s Eve
New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. Photo by Anthony Quintano/Flickr.
1904 was a big year for the city of New York. The first underground subway system in the United States launched in Manhattan, the New York Times opened the second highest skyscraper in the city at One Times Square, and ...
Memories of Ciclovía, dreams for Raahgiri Day
Rainy Ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia. Photo by Claudio Olivares Medina/Flickr.
Darío Hidalgo is EMBARQ’s Director for Research and Practice, a transport expert, and Colombian native who grew up participating in Ciclovía in Bogotá. Today, Hidalgo shares his memories of Ciclovía and recent experience at Raahgiri Day in Gurgaon, India. Certain moments make me ...
Friday Fun: 100 in 1 day highlights the power of active citizenship
Urban community garden in Montréal, Canada. Photo by Bruno VITASSE/Flickr.
From Bogotá, Colombia to Cape Town, South Africa and Kaluga, Russia, the 100 en 1 día (100 in 1 day) movement is making an impact on urban streetscapes worldwide. A “global social movement for citizen-driven change,” the movement is a ...
A strategy for cities: Pedro Ortiz on the age of the metropolis
Cycling water vendors Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Victoria Hickman/Engineering at Cambridge.
“We are made of hopes and we are made of dreams. That’s why people go to cities.” There are 600 cities worldwide with over one million inhabitants. Many are growing at a very fast rate, by anywhere between four to ...
Happy holidays from TheCityFix!
Santa waves from Chicago's "Santa Train." Photo by Boqiang Liao/Flickr.
Happy holidays, readers! 2013 is drawing to a close, and while many of us are celebrating Christmas today, or maybe just enjoying a day off of work – our team wanted to take a moment to wish you a warm ...
Challenges and opportunities come with Turkey’s urban boom
"On The Tram." Photo by Melissa Maples/Flickr.
Turkey’s urban population has grown from 25% of its total population in the 1950s to 77% today – a figure well above its global counterpart of 52%. In a little more than half a century, rapid urbanization has transformed the ...
Reinventing Chennai’s auto-rickshaws
Auto-rickshaw in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Kamakshi Sachidanandam/Flickr.
Chennai – the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southeastern India – recently implemented new fare regulations in its auto-rickshaw sector for the first time since 2007. In 2010, the Tamil Nadu government lifted a freeze on issuing permits, which ...
Friday Fun: Vote for the Audi Urban Future Award!
"Rush Hour Slalom." Photo by Tommy Vohs/Flickr.
By 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To prepare for this unprecedented growth in the global urban population, Audi has been seeking standout solutions for future mobility in metropolitan regions – and you can help ...