Part of a four-part special on the future of cities, the Scientific American looks at the successes of energy and waste recycling systems in Stockholm. Distributed energy, it argues, will put power generation in the hands of a greater number of professionals, spurring a new wave of innovation in energy management, just as the desktop computer did for information technology.
While residents in the Soweto suburb of Protea South clash with shack dwellers over electricity…
Despite being one of the world's largest producers and exporters of oil, Nigeria has been gripped by fuel scarcity at its filling stations for a week. A round-up of articles attempting to explain the current crisis.
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
