Coming Up: Spring & Plenty of New Stories
Get over it! Winter, that is. We’re all ready for the fresh start and promise of spring and that means bringing you stories of inspired design, urban trends, wild spaces […]
Category Archives: Cities
Cities: Museums New & Coming
In cities large and small, look at the vibrant and growing arts scene worldwide — new museums, splendid opera halls, concert venues, old buildings turned to new uses – and […]
CITIES: China, Japan, Russia, Europe, Green Capitals
CITIES around the world are sizzling –transforming with urban design, revitalization. architecture, the arts, and smart technologies . This month we’ll look at trends in Europe’s green capitals, Amsterdam, Moscow, […]
Gift Books 2014: Cities
Our books for 2014 look back and ahead at cities’ history, design, destruction and revitalization, and their not-well-kept secrets. Something happened on the way to assembling this year’s book suggestions. […]
Berlin: The Wall and The City
Berlin as a city has a storied identity – as a canvas for art, entertainment, hedonism, evil, political rhetoric, a place that created world events and has reinvented itself after […]
Rotterdam Markthal: Shop, Eat, Live
Move over Copenhagen, Valencia, Budapest and Göteberg: The boldest food experience in Europe was inaugurated October 2 by Netherlands’ Queen Maxima – the shop-eat-live Markthal (Market Hall) in the historic […]
Cities: On the Road
Amsterdam is HOT! This city of 800,000– the size Detroit used to be in its glory days — packs a wallop culturally speaking. The Rijksmuseum with its glorious Dutch Masters paintings reopened […]
Cities: Getting There (Part I)
Cities: Getting There. Whether on foot, by tram, or subway, mobility can invigorate or stifle life in urban centers. What can be worse for pedestrians, urban residents and the vitality of […]
Solar Decathlon 2014: The Game Is On (Pt 1)
Twenty international collegiate/technical institute teams from 16 countries are about to begin competing in the 2014 European Solar Decathlon which debuts June 28 at the Chateau of Versailles, France, just […]
Books Galore Summer 2014
Books Galore this summer! After posting over 150 books to buy, read, view in the past 18 months, Green News Update is still awash in books for your library or […]
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