1-5 of 22 matching articles 5 20 100 All Sustainable is not enough: a call for regenerative cities Anna Leidreiter • 31 January 2012 Because so much damage has already been done to the world’s ecosystems, we need to start thinking of regenerative rather than just sustainable urban development. A call to ban gas drilling in New York's drinking water catchment area Administrator • 1 January 2010 The New York Times calls for the New York state government to ban drilling for natural gas reserves within the New York city watershed, fearing chemical contamination of the city's water supply. "We can buy ourselves 300 years" say planners on fighting rising sea levels in delta cities Anthony Flint/Citiscope • 16 June 2010 As coastal and delta cities face the impacts of rising sea levels due to climate change, planners are readying with a combination of sea wall solutions, ecological engineering and urban design, which one says will buy us three centuries of security. Why a 100-mile Paris metropole is just a rhetorical dream Kerwin Datu • 4 June 2010 Formally, rhetorically and economically, the 100-mile metropole touted by President Nicolas Sarkozy and his advisor Jacques Attali stands for a lot less than we would like to imagine. Asian cities some of the worst and best places to be during a disaster IRIN • 25 October 2010 The 2010 World Disasters Report highlights the "urban risk divide" between wealthy cities like Tokyo and poorer cities like Kathmandu, Manila and Jakarta which would face serious losses in any emergency. 1 2 3 4 5
