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Eco-friendly brick made from sand and human urine

Cape Town student’s invention could reduce construction sector’s impact on climate

  • Energy
  • Billy Nolan
  • 23 Nov 2018

Cycling activist Aline Cavalcante in Top 5 of Urban Visionaries

WDCD-alumnus Cavalcante heralded for her persistence in claiming cyclist rights

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 17 Oct 2018

Vertical Forests reduce energy use, improve urban air quality

Living architecture is the new generation of high-rise urban buildings

  • City
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 26 Sep 2018

Housing more people while reducing CO2 emissions

Clean Energy Challenge: developing greener buildings in Dehli

  • WDCD Challenge
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 09 Sep 2018

Making the journey from farm to fork greener and fairer

Clean Energy Challenge: reimagining the food supply chain in Nairobi

  • WDCD Challenge
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 09 Sep 2018

How to embed clean energy in Amsterdam’s cityscape?

Clean Energy Challenge: designing the energy transition in Amsterdam

  • WDCD Challenge
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 09 Sep 2018

From waste to resource, a new mind-set for Mexico City

Clean Energy Challenge: rethinking waste in Mexico City

  • WDCD Challenge
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 09 Sep 2018

How to make a slow city faster and cleaner?

Clean Energy Challenge: redesigning transportation in São Paulo

  • WDCD Challenge
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 09 Sep 2018

‘We must heal our cities with technology and love’

Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Guto Requena

  • City
  • What Design Can Do
  • 06 Apr 2018

A bridge to reconnect a deprived enclave in São Paulo

WDCD Live São Paulo 2017 report: Activation Session 16, Jardim Panorama

  • City
  • Pepijn Zurburg
  • 06 Dec 2017

‘Patricia Espinosa is a great ally for me’

Aline Cavalcante (right) and Patricia Espinosa quickly connectedBiker activist Aline Cavalcante talks about her meeting with UNFCCC-head that originated from WDCD Live Amsterdam

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 10 Aug 2017

Zero-carbon towns: science fiction or urban future?

Architecture student Damien Assini proposes masterplan for a carbon-free urban landscape

  • City
  • Natasha Berting
  • 09 Aug 2017

Help Amsterdam fight bicycle congestion

FlickBikes, one parked according to the rules, the other notNew free floating rental bikes confront the city with parking problems

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 07 Aug 2017

Liuzhou Forest City will be entirely covered by trees

Construction has begun in southern China of the world’s first tree-clad city designed by Stefano Boeri

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 19 Jul 2017

Traveling Ark wins Post-Fossil City Contest

The rules of the Ark's journey for participating citiesThe Ark of the Newest Covenant by BreukersGoderie will present Ten Sustainable Commandments to cities

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 23 Jun 2017

Investigating how the future city can feed itself

IKEA’s innovation lab SPACE10 researches self-sustaining urban food production

  • City
  • Pepijn Zurburg
  • 21 Feb 2017

A park with the features of a submarine

Carlo Ratti Associati presents master plan for a floating park in West Palm Beach, Florida

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 31 Oct 2016

Information decrypted into architecture

On stage at WDCD Live São Paulo 2016: Jacob van Rijs, founder of MVRDV

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 25 Oct 2016

Stubborn promotor of bicycle in São Paulo

Aline Cavalcante speaks at WDCD Live SP about her missions to get Paulistas pedaling

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 24 Oct 2016

A design museum in the slums

Design Museum Dharavi was set up to explore the social impact of design on informal settlement community

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 21 Sep 2016

Walls of green bring colour and air in the concrete desert

Landscape studio m.90 works on green corridor in São Paulo

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 05 Sep 2016

DUS presents 3D printed tiny house

Inventors of the 3D Printed Canal House come up with printed mini-retreat

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 31 Aug 2016

Silver Lion for Kunlé Adeyemi

Venice Architecture Biennale issues award for promising young participant to designer of Makoko Floating School

  • City
  • Bas van Lier
  • 02 Jun 2016

In support of marginalized urban communities

Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform (CMAP) helps disadvantaged communities to shape their city

  • City
  • Billy Nolan
  • 27 May 2016

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