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Towards Flood Resilient Cities

Details: 15 March 2009 | By Chris Zevenbergen | 3148

thumb_cost22 Cities are evolving systems. We have little understanding of their behaviour. We know that they are highly dynamic, in that they face changing environments and inputs, and adapt to these changes. Over a longer historical period, cities have always successfully adapted to changing environmental conditions and thus have been extremely resilient. From 1100 to 1800, only 42 cities worldwide were deserted after their construction.

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The European Urban Atlas - Supporting City Habitability

Details: 01 March 2009 | By Wolfgang Steinborn | 4340

Consumption of natural land for settlements, industry and transport infrastructure proceeds with an alarming pace in Europe and disagrees with the stagnating population. Every three years we lose a surface area equivalent to the size of Luxemburg. Structural Funds of the EU have been held partially responsible for the ill-development. In order to obtain an objective and independent monitoring tool for this and many other purposes, the EU has now launched the “Urban Atlas”, a harmonised map of current land-use/land-cover and their changes over time.

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Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

Details: 19 February 2009 | By Tom Fraser | 2616

thumb_fraser_nz Pour a glass of water out of a kitchen tap throughout the Canterbury region of New Zealand and chances are you’ll be staring at what many consider the finest drinking water in the world. Cool, clear and untouched, it’s originated in the mountains of the Southern Alps, travelled across the Canterbury Plains in the large braided river systems and then filtered slowly through the alluvial shingles before settling in large natural aquifers.

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Spicycles - Sustainable Policies For Cities On Cycling

Details: 17 February 2009 | By Pascal van den Noort | 2786

When the Spicycles project was launched in 2006, cycling was not the ‘hot’ mode of transport that it has become today. As project partners, we wanted to gather experience related to specific areas of cycling policy. We were keen to explore how key elements such as communication and awareness raising, and the building of local partnerships, might increase the modal share of cycling. We had big expectations at the beginning of the project regarding cycling planning, but could not have predicted the explosion in the popularity of public bicycle systems that has taken place during Spicycles.

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A Bridge Over Troubled Geospatial Data - and best practice for INSPIRE

Details: 04 February 2009 | By Steven Ramage and Dave Lovell | 3121

The first line in the Mission Statement for the European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network (ESDIN) project is ‘To become a bridge over troubled geospatial data’. This statement sums up the situation quite well but it needs some elaboration in terms of what the troubles are and how the bridge is being built! 1Spatial is the only UK technology provider in ESDIN. They are helping the consortium to develop best practice for geospatial data management and are working collaboratively with a large number of national mapping agencies, universities and EuroGeographics as the project co-ordinator. (Image: Dave Lovell - l,Steven Ramage-r).

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