The Ecocity World Summit in Abu Dhabi will take place October 11-13th of 2015 Dr. Sahar Attia is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, with a PhD in Urban Planning from the Urban Institute of Paris, University of Paris 12, France. She...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Mike Carr with Susan’s grandson. Photo via Common Ground[/caption]Mike Carr obtained his PhD in the study of Bioregionalism and Civil Society from the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in 1999. He studied under Professor Emeritus Dr....
by Sarah Campbell Eco-Streets Project Coordinator and Administrative Assistant, School of Construction and the Environment British Columbia Institute of Technology The creation of an Ecocity fractal is an ambitious task in any area. To attempt one in a built environment defined by industrial architecture that lacks green space is especially...
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest urban center in Africa and the Middle East. It is the third largest metropolitan capital in the Muslim world after Jakarta and Istanbul. Cairo occupies the sixteenth place globally in terms of expansion of urban areas....
Cairo University Professor Dr. Sahar Attia and Associate Professor Dr. Heba Allah E. Khalil have just released their most recent research (Urban Metabolism and Quality of Life in Informal Areas) on using the urban metabolism methodology not only as a quantifying, analyzing tool to measure...
If you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the strawberries got munched by bugs. If those mishaps didn't deflate you enough to replace the...
According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) there are ten essential attributes of cites that help make them resilient. These attributes comprise a checklist as follows (UNISDR 2015a):Organization and coordination. Assigned budget. Up to date risk data incorporated in land use plans. Critical infrastructure...
A while back I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from around the globe....
Uneven access to healthy and nutritious food is a global phenomenon – witness: many North Americans’ struggle with obesity while many Africans’ starve. Food often comprises the largest component of a city’s ecological footprint (COV 2011), and agriculture contributes 10-12 percent of global greenhouse gas...
by Jennie Moore, Director, Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship, British Colombia Institute of TechnologyA socio-cultural feature of ecocities is that they support a healthy and equitable economy. The International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS) identifies that the city’s economy “consistently favors economic activities that reduce...