The NYC High Line
The High Line is a park built on an historic high railroad lane. Two New Yorkers developed this project to save an old piece of infrastructure that runs along the lower west side of Manhattan. They brought it back to life by turning it into a fully functioning, ecological and contemporary piece of urban design. [...]
Can You Take the Bus for Free?
As follow-up to Revolve’s CITIES coverage of Tallinn: Free Public Transport in the Winter 2012/13 issue, Lubomir Mitev and Laura Beltran Villamizar from Revolve visited Tallinn for the Union of Baltic Cities meeting in mid-April to see how the transition to free public buses was going. From April 10-12, the Union of Baltic Cities Energy, [...]
Genoa: Sustainable Port City
Situated between the mountains and the sea, Genoa is an important port and the capital of the Liguria region in Italy. An ancient and multifaceted city where one can smell the classic odors of the sea and walk on the same ancient roads tread upon by bankers and seamen, Genoa is also a city that [...]
Beckerich: a Luxembourg leader
Interesting Facts: Beckerich’s population is only 2,300 people. The municipality is composed of 700 households, spread over 8 small villages. 90% autonomous in terms of energy consumption. Since 1994, Beckerich’s electricity consumption has decreased by 7% compared to a 3% increase in Luxembourg as a whole. You may have seen the name Beckerich on a [...]
City of the Dead
In the sprawling megapolis of Cairo, capital of Egypt, there is a place where life and death coexist, writes Zeina Elcheikh. Situated in a strategic location in Cairo, a large space occupied by tombs and mausoleums stretches out alongside the hill of Al-Moqattam. This historical cemetery has a particular characteristic: it is a place where [...]
Helsinki: Sustainability in the North
Spread over a number of bays and peninsulas on the coast of the Baltic Sea lies Helsinki, the capital of Finland. In September 2012, the city was especially chosen by the European Commission’s Covenant of Mayors to join a prestigious club of case studies aimed at demonstrating concrete results in terms of sustainable local development. [...]
Tallinn: Free Public Transport
With more people moving to cities and more people getting cars, cities around the world are confronted with exponential traffic and pollution. The promotion and implementation of more sustainable modes of transport are pressing issues that policy-makers and municipalities must address. How can they possibly counter the independence that comes with having a car? From January 2013, Tallinn will be the first [...]
Antwerp: Ambiguous City
As one of the winners of the Photo Academy Awards 2012 Serge Maes talks to Revolve about his work on Antwerp, dubbed “Ambiguous City”. This project was initially thought to be a personal project, turning into an ongoing quest for urban aesthetic spontaneity. “I take pictures that I would like to see in someone else’s [...]
Vilnius: Amongst Sacred Trees
The capital of Lithuania is not a big city - Vilnius has a population of 550,000 – but it enjoys some of the cleanest air of all urban agglomerations in Europe. Here’s the secret to how Vilnius is literally one of the greenest European cities. Writer: Raul Cazan Raul Cazan is editor-in-chief of 2Celsius Network and has worked as an [...]
Mumbai: Coastal Mega-City of India
A Local Perspective of Dharavi and Girangaon Writer: Anita Patil-Deshmukh The year 2008 marked a demographic watershed since, for the first time, more than half of the world’s population now lived in cities. The United Nations predicts that 67% of the developing world will live in cities by 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2010/11). However, when urbanization is [...]
