cities
Mayors in five US cities join drive to cool urban districts
As high temperatures create an urban heat island effect in many places this summer, the mayors of five American cities have signed up to an initiative to cool urban spaces by installing ‘smart surfaces’
Major McKinsey study calls on cities to adopt hybrid model
A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute insists that the trend to hybrid work is permanent and says that cities can combat rising urban vacancy rates in office and retail by adopting more flexible approaches themselves
Nexus value: charting the shift from mixed-use to mixed-experience
Mixed-use has been advanced as a way to reanimate city centres, but is it enough? A Mirvac report argues for a shift to mixed-experience projects that can create a new form of value known as ‘nexus value’
Utopia or dystopia? How work shapes health in our cities
As our polluted urban centres struggle to be great places to live and work, public health policy is now turning its attention to what happens in the workplace
Designing healthier cities: why the workplace is now the pivotal issue
Public health experts are increasingly looking at change in working practices as the key to unlock the potential for urban wellbeing - as the 2018 Healthy City Design Congress will explore
How smart precincts will shape the dynamics of the changing city
Smart precincts that combine novel mixed-use placemaking with emerging digital technologies are becoming testbeds for urban innovation. A new discussion paper from developer Mirvac and WORKTECH Academy explores the potential
Intermix: a new concept for the smart precinct of the future
How can the smart precinct of the future harness new technologies to create intelligent, integrated places to work and live? A new discussion paper from developer Mirvac, co-produced with WORKTECH Academy, presents some models
Designing utopia: Chile’s great experiment in cybernetic control
Utopian visions by 37 nations at the inaugural London Design Biennale largely ignored the work economy - Chile’s Counterculture Room proved the exception to the rule
