Green Cities News
On this page, you will find all news related to the Green Cities programme.
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23 April 2018
Urban tiny forests are good for biodiversity
- Tiny forests are small city forests, as big as a tennis court, in which a large number of tree species are planted to get the most biodiversity... -
05 March 2018
The complex relations between city centres, suburbia and larger peripheries
- The SPIMA project addresses the need to deal with the challenges of metropolitan development in Europe. It aims to gain better understanding of the... -
07 November 2017
Construction of Unilever building officially started
- Construction of Unilever's Global Foods Innovation Centre officially started on Friday 3 November. Architect Paul de Ruiter explained what makes this... -
27 October 2017
Green business park works better
- Business parks are often uninspiring. They tend to be a collection of giant, grey office buildings with car parks or massive factories surrounded by... -
11 September 2017
Climate-smart city needs more green spaces
- In the Netherlands, we are almost starting to get used to seeing cars getting stranded in flooded tunnels and the fire service pumping out cellars.... -
05 September 2017
Finally political attention for heat stress
- Heat stress is a prominent topic which, according to the Cabinet, deserves serious attention in the decades to come. The State Opening of the Dutch... -
18 August 2017
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute)
- AMS Institute is an internationally leading institute where talent is educated and engineers, designers, and both natural and social scientists... -
26 July 2017
Executive Board appoints new professor Urban Economics
- Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen has been appointed as chair of the Urban Economics Group at Wageningen University & Research as per October 1, 2017.... -
31 May 2017
Producing clean water from urban sewage streams in India
- Recently in India a project started for local treatment of urban sewage streams for healthy reuse (LOTUS HR). This project aims to clean one of the... -
05 April 2017
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