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Benefits of Mixed-Use Development
Mixed-use development offers real estate investors many advantages. By coexisting in close proximity, it enables different kinds of businesses to maintain customer bases while mitigating risks during economic fluctuations….
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Green Buildings
Green buildings reduce pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and energy waste while conserving natural resources such as energy and other essential resources. They also promote healthier living environments for their…
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Challenges to Transit-Oriented Development
TOD integrates land use and transportation planning to create vibrant mixed-use neighborhoods around public transit stations, which foster economic development while simultaneously reducing congestion, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions….
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Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Sustainable urban infrastructure refers to all of the engineering systems that make up a city, from renewable energy production and use to eco-friendly sewage treatment systems. Sustainable cities foster…
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What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development means creating a world where every person has access to decent work, quality health care and education. It requires using natural resources sustainably while preventing pollution and…
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Energy Efficiency – Why It’s Good For You, the Economy and the Environment
Energy efficiency benefits consumers, businesses and the environment alike. It reduces strain on our power grid while helping prevent climate pollution caused by fossil fuel-burning power plants. Energy efficiency…
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Smart Grids and Energy Storage
Smart grids enable society to switch from central power generation systems to distributed energy resources at various scales, providing distributed energy resources more power and more control. Furthermore, they…
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What Makes a Smart City?
Smart cities use technology to reduce costs, boost sustainability, and streamline energy distribution and refuse collection processes – yet require a different approach to urban development. Quantitative techniques such…
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What Is Energy Storage?
Energy storage enables renewables to integrate seamlessly into electric power grids for real world use, providing frequency regulation services as well as improving power quality. Energy storage can help…
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What is Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility refers to how people get around a city for either work or pleasure, including walking, cycling, public transit and the car. Urbanization and economic development have placed…