Finance & Commerce: Sensors track urban heat islets to target cooling projects
Fast Company: How tech pinpoints urban heat islands and makes cooling projects easier
The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprived urban areas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
EurekAlert!: Urban trees enhance cooling on hotter days but face challenges in extreme heat
Urban trees enhance cooling on hotter days but face challenges in extreme heat
The project’s aim: testing the mettle of social media. The Red Balloon Challenge, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, laid out a simple objective: Use social media to identify the GPS coordinates for all 10 balloons, suspended at fixed locations across the country.
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
New World Bank Financing Set to Revamp Dodoma’s Urban Mobility and ...
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
Investments in adaptation will also save over 130,000 lives from extreme heat impacts by 2050. With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development. “The imperative for India to build resilient cities at scale is clear.
Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization The joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council, Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization, includes six priority areas for a new model of urbanization: 1. Reforming land management and institutions Because most of the urban expansion in recent ...
WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
Over the course of a century, Parsons has forged deep ties to the Garden State – overseeing major projects that are critical to maintaining and enhancing the state’s infrastructure. The firm, which ...
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We at eTeknix review the newly launched ID-Cooling IS-60 EVO ARGB. A low-profile cooling solution featuring ARGB lighting effects.
Corsair has brought its liquid cooling technology to a new PC market segment today, with the launch of the Hydro Series H5 SF. This is a quiet and efficient low-profile liquid CPU cooler which caters ...
San Francisco is a town that celebrates people in all their quirky, peculiar, and eccentric forms. The Urban Profile column tells the stories of the colorful characters that make San Francisco–well, ...
Untapped Cities: Urban Profile: Halcyonaire Explores the Interplay of the Urban and the Natural with Dark Country Rock
Urban Profile: Halcyonaire Explores the Interplay of the Urban and the Natural with Dark Country Rock
The Handbook on Urban Heat Management in the Global South provides practical strategies, technical guidance, and real-world solutions to help cities manage extreme urban heat.
Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling MIT hosts the 14th Math Prize for Girls, which aims to encourage female middle and high school students of mathematics.
The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium is a collaboration between MIT, founding member companies, and researchers across disciplines who aim to develop open-source generative AI solutions, accelerating innovations in education, research, and industry.
MIT spinout AIM Biotech has developed a microfluidics device that lets researchers co-culture multiple cell types in a 3-D hydrogel environment that mimics natural tissue, to more accurately study biological processes, such as cancer metastasis, and better capture how cancer cells react to chemotherapy agents.
MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester to conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations.
“FrameDiff” is a computational tool that uses generative AI to craft new protein structures, with the aim of accelerating drug development and improving gene therapy.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
About Projects A project is an adaptable table, board, and roadmap that integrates with your issues and pull requests on GitHub to help you plan and track your work effectively at the user or organization level. You can create and customize multiple views by filtering, sorting, slicing, and grouping your issues and pull requests to manage your team backlogs and roadmaps, visualize work with ...
The 500 AI Agents Projects is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. It showcases practical applications and provides links to open-source projects for implementation...
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