What is a 15-minute city?
This vision for sustainable cities imagines places where residents can truly live locally, with everything they need just a short…
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Where are the most sustainable cities in the world?
Urban sustainability is not just a question of economic or technological development, but also of prosperity, according to the Arcadis…
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Where are the largest cities in Europe?
It’s the big one, the leviathan, the great leader and global bastion – standing streaks ahead of its tiddly continental…
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Comparing the big French banks’ carbon targets
The four largest French banks by assets are taking steps to cut their exposure to oil and gas, but data…
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Why blimps and airships died out – and how they might be making a comeback
Many years ago the airship was going to be the future. Is this sector of the aviation industry finally ready…
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How a French property firm turned its €5.6bn of debt green
Real estate investment trust Gecina has completed the landmark green conversion of its entire debt portfolio. Finance head Nicolas Dutreuil…
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Changing the lives of refugees through fashion design
By providing training and support, a new municipal project in Paris is aimed at giving refugees a first job and…
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How Paris’s participatory budget is reinvigorating democracy
Participatory budgeting allows residents to propose projects and vote on how they want to allocate a significant amount of municipal…
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