25 August 2016 Our new report profiles ten leading ‘smart-eco’ cities in the UK (Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Peterborough, and Sheffield), and also includes a summary overview of the 2016 national smart-eco ‘landscape’. It draws on research conducted over the last year. Download the UK report as a pdf. A …
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Metrics and Sustainable Urban Futures
Federico Caprotti delivered the introductory talk (titled ‘Metrics and sustainable urban futures’), at the ‘Urban Futures: Interrogating Metrics and the City’ workshop held at King’s College London, 8 June 2016. This was based on linking recent work (including SMART-ECO research) on metrics and the city to broader debates around the UN’s New Urban Agenda and …
Project Meeting in Ningbo (China) 2016
20 May 2016 Our project team recently met at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China to plan for the next 12 months, with a focus on our choice of case studies in China, France, Germany, Holland and the UK. We also reviewed the global smart-eco-city database work to date, and the country-specific ‘horizon-scanning’ work which has taken place in Year …
Annual Project Meeting 2016
7 March 2016 Our project members will be meeting at the University of Nottingham’s campus in Ningbo (China) on 12-15 May, to share the findings from the first year of research. Following the meeting, our research reports, working papers, and international database will be made available on this website. 中文请微信搜索smartecocities公众平台
Kick-off Meeting in London 12 September 2015
Our international project team met at King’s College London on 9-10 September 2015, to agree on the programme of research to be conducted in the first year. The key elements of this research are as follows: Smart-Eco Horizon-Scanning and Case Reports For each of the countries on which the research will focus (the UK, China, …