Laura Puttkamer
Smart City Tallinn: City Portrait
Estonia’s capital city Tallinn is one of the most advanced smart cities in the world. The city by the Baltic Sea is also the ...
Smart City Portrait Florence
Florence is the capital of Italy’s beautiful Tuscany region and known for hosting many masterpieces of Renaissance art and ...
City Portrait: Smart Bristol
Bristol, a city of almost half a million in the southwest of England, was the first British city to be named European Green ...
City Portrait: Smart Grenoble
Grenoble is a city of about 160,000 inhabitants in southeastern France, known for its winter sport, its museums and ...
City Portrait: Smart Umea
Umeå or Umea is a fast growing Swedish city, 600 km north of Stockholm. The 11th largest city of the country, it has a ...
City Portrait: Getting Smart in Ghent
Ghent is the third-largest city in Belgium after Brussels and Antwerp. The capital of the East Flanders region is known for its ...
Children in the Smart City
The United Nations are asking us to create cities that leave no one behind. One group that is often overlooked in urban design ...
Smart City Espoo: Co-Creation, Innovation, and Sustainable Solutions
Espoo is Finland’s second biggest city. With close to 300,000 inhabitants, it is home to many education and research institutes ...
Leuven Smart City Strategy - Networked, Smart, Climate-Neutral
Leuven in Belgium is not only the country’s beer capital and home to the Stella Artois brewery, but also a spectacularly ...
Zero-emission construction sites
Did you know that the built environment is the largest contributor to global carbon emissions? Almost 40% of greenhouse gas ...
City Portrait: Smart City Copenhagen
Denmark’s capital city is regularly voted as one of the world’s most liveable and smart cities. At 602,000 inhabitants, it is a ...
Urban October 2023: Challenges and Opportunities in Cities
Every year, UN-Habitat celebrates Urban October, a month where everyone is part of the conversation about the challenges and ...
The Parks: The First Self-sufficient Smart City in Africa
When talking about smart cities, the African continent is often neglected. But there are many important developments there that ...
HVV Switch: Multimodal Mobility in Hamburg
When you are using Hamburg’s public transport system, the symbol of a red power plug appears everywhere. This is the symbol of ...
Proximity: The Key to Green and Thriving Neighbourhoods
Smart cities are always looking for ways to make their neighbourhoods greener and more liveable. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...