Boosting Lages development through the territory
The city should provide an environment that stimulates creativity and innovation for its residents.
German Chancellor Fellowship – Reflections
Reflections on the times in Germany, the new values of the society and the relation with cities
Guimarães and the human scale
The center of the city of Guimarães is today a living room of the city, explains the architect Manuel Roque.
Ribeira da Granja, daylighting streams in Portugal
As a pilot project, the process started in the Ribeira da Granja made the practice to bury the rivers and make them run through the pipes water under the bridge now. “Portugal is no longer ‘tubing’ rivers,” says Pedro Teiga.
Interconnected parks
Brazil can take full advantage of the rivers to create interconnected parks along them, bringing more leisure, active mobility and valuing the landscape.
Daylight streams refreshes the air
There are many reasons to daylight rivers, such as the contact of the people with the river, the return of the fauna and flora. But one of them is quite persuasive: air conditioning.
Blue and Green Infrastructure
The Blue and Green Infrastructure proposes to solve the functional problems of a city in a more economic way, privileging the environmental preservation and benefiting the people.
Cherry trees in Bonn
Every year in early spring, the cherry trees turn the streets of Bonn into a sea of pink flowers.
The Essen revolution
The city of Essen has reinvented itself, and the Emscher River is a key point of this new approach.