The Impact of Urban Farming in Berlin and Hong Kong
Urban farms can help sustain the environment and educate citizens, with these two projects in Berlin and Hong Kong showing that major international cities across the globe are embracing urban farming.
View ArticleBerlinomics: Power from Trash
In homes and on streets throughout Berlin there are containers for recycling plastic, glass, paper, organic waste, and everything else. And what the city doesn't recycle, it uses to generate...
View ArticleExploring Berlin on the Smart Electric Bike
Best known for their 2-seater car, smart are now branching out into electric bikes. This Big City recently got the chance to test-drive their newest model through the streets of Berlin, and here's our...
View ArticleBringing Cities to Life with Light
Light has a tremendous ability to transform a place. The use of light as an artistic medium, and a building as a canvas, can change an otherwise dark street in the city into an inviting, mesmerizing...
View ArticleIt’s a Love/Hate Thing: The Protest to Preserve the Berlin Wall
“Don’t tear down this wall!” This phrase may sound shocking to Berliners who lived for decades in a divided city, but it is the rallying cry of the current protest in Berlin to preserve the East Side...
View ArticleMaintaining the ‘Social’ in Germany’s Social Market Economy
German cities have a huge rental market, containing vast amounts of social purpose housing. But tenant's rights are worsening.
View ArticleMicro-Geographies of Homelessness: A Guided Tour Through Schöneberg, Berlin
This is not your typical tour: viewing the city form the perspective of its homeless population.
View ArticleBerlin, Barcelona and the Struggle Against Gentrification
Gentrification happens in all cities with rapid economic development such as Paris, London, Barcelona and Berlin, the last of which is known as a young, creative and emergent metropolis. But the...
View ArticleThe Social Library that Transformed a Berlin Street (And Community)
The Berlin Book Forest sees the street as a social library, installing a book exchange kiosk in a tree lined street in the neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg.
View ArticleRestoring Food’s Value Through Urban Refrigerators
According to estimates by the European Commission, more than 100 million tonnes of food will be wasted this year in the EU zone alone, and that figure is expected to grow to 126 million tonnes by 2020.
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