Tag: urbanization

    Iraq plans new city next to the capital

    In order to find solutions to the chaos in Baghdad due to overpopulation, the Iraqi government plans to launch a new city next to the capital, Al-Monitor reports. The Iraqi Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced last week the start of work to build a new administrative city on the outskirts […]

    Kuwait aims to transform ‘tire graveyard’ into the new city

    Kuwait, on August 29, announced plans to transform what was once a mammoth “tire graveyard” into a residential city. The 2-square-kilometer dump in the north of the oil-rich Gulf country was where tires went to die – a total of more than 40 million at the end. Seventeen years of tire dumping and three massive […]

    Kuwait plans region’s first city for electric carmakers

    Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has approved a proposal to build the Middle East’s first city to serve electric vehicle manufacturers, the authority said in a statement in August. The statement does not make clear where the project, called EV City, will be located. The design and construction tendering process will be during the 2011/22 fiscal […]

    The climate crisis in Athens is exacerbated by urban planning mistakes
    25 Aug 2021

    This summer, Greece experienced a record heatwave when temperatures in Athens reached 44 degrees Celsius. Urban planning mistakes exacerbated the climate crisis in Athens and suffered from large-scale forest fires. Concrete rivers, chaotic buildings, and a love of cars prevent the city from resisting climate change, the New York Times states. Let’s check how strong […]