CITY & URBAN


GLASGOW WINS FUTURE CITIES AWARD Glasgow city council has beaten 30 other UK cities to win the £24m (€28m) Future Cities Demonstrator competition. The project is intended to showcase ways in which UK cities can harness new technologies and integrate city systems to help local economies to grow while improving the lives of citizens. The competition is managed and funded by the UK government’s innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board. In addition to enabling Glasgow to develop


a city dashboard to monitor city systems and conditions including traffic lights, CCTV, air quality and street lighting faults, the Demonstrator will also report hospital waiting times and monitor energy use across the city. Data will also include footfall and retail


demand.


Glasgow: its Demonstrator project will feature a digital dashboard conveying data on the city’s conditions


IMPROVING THE AIR This is Europe’s Year of Air – and the Clean Air Everywhere Conference, taking place in Brussels during January and organised by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in association with Soot Free for the Climate, looked at how EU policies could help improve Europe’s air. The conference brought together representatives from the European Commission, member states, the European Parliament, as well as from European regions and cities. Janez Potocnik, EU


Commissioner for Environment, praised the work that has been done to combat air pollution, but added: “We still need to make progress. Our health and environment require it, and our economy will benefit.”


Singapore’s Marina Bay


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HIGH-DENSITY CITIES GUIDELINES PUT PEOPLE FIRST A new publication by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) has established ten principles for liveable high-density cities. The report, 10 Principles for Liveable High Density Cities: Lessons from Singapore, says that a “people-first” approach can help to ensure that rapid urbanisation does not compromise liveability and sustainability. The ten principles were developed during workshops run by the CLC and


ULI Asia Pacific last year and attended by 62 experts and practitioners from different disciplines. “Singapore is seen as a high-density, high-liveability development model.


We saw some relevance of Singapore’s experience to others, particularly emerging cities, many of which are high density and want to raise the quality of life for their people,” said CLC executive director Khoo Teng Chye. The first principle is to plan for long-term growth and renewal. The report says that while dense cities don’t usually have much choice but to make efficient use of their scarce land, “planners need to do this in a way that does not make the city feel cramped and unliveable”.


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