16-20 of 100 matching articles 5 20 100 All How cities are financing their own energy efficiency by making retrofitting possible Julia Thayne • 14 January 2014 New financial institutions and instruments have made it easy for large building owners to retrofit their properties Spelling out the five 'P's of sustainable construction Dominik Baumann • 20 March 2012 To re-energise the idea of sustainable construction, the Holcim Foundation proposes five qualitative measures that will help make a building truly endure. The City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban government is enough Alia Dharssi • 17 February 2015 The idea of empowering city governments is a thrown around a lot these days in urbanite circles. But where should the line between local and higher levels of government begin and end? Alia Dharssi reports on the debate. An urban exemplar in the Middle East: Doha, Qatar Zoe Green • 1 May 2012 Doha is part of Qatar's push to become an urban exemplar for the region, diversifying away from an oil-based economy by investing in education, enterprise, sport, transport and the quality of the public realm. London 2012 Olympics: missing an opportunity for truly sustainable development Joe Peach • 22 June 2010 Analysis begins at home. London is the world's financial and business capital, an exemplar of the tensions and inequalities besetting all global cities, and the home of The Global Urbanist. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
