Urban 2.0 Papers
A Paper about UCL PEARL
A paper about Delhi + others
A Paper about UCL PEARL
The Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL) is a unique and customisable laboratory space to study the senses and explore how people interact with their environment...
A Paper about London
A paper about Delhi + others
A Paper about UCL PEARL
This paper focuses in particular on the range of resilience activities being pursued across London. A key learning is how these activities are stitched together as a whole.
A paper about Delhi + others
A paper about Delhi + others
A paper about Delhi + others
This paper focuses on cities in north central India, and in particular the terrible air pollution that blights them each wintertime.
Can anything be done to stop it?
A paper about Japan
A paper about Bordeaux
A paper about Delhi + others
This paper focuses on what the world can learn from Japan's approach to urban environments.
Japan contains many learnings for us all, which we can apply in our context.
A paper about Bordeaux
A paper about Bordeaux
A paper about Bordeaux
For some time, Bordeaux in France has been actively focusing on integrated resilience.
This Paper provides details about the municipalities activities...
A paper about Utrecht
A paper about Bordeaux
A paper about Bordeaux
This Paper about Utrecht, a city in the heart of the Netherlands, focuses on how active mobility, cycling in particular, is integrated into how the city functions...
A paper about Hanoi
A paper about water cities
A paper about Shanghai
This Paper about Hanoi, the capital of Viet Nam, is an overview about how the city functions, using the Urban 2.0 system to describe its components...
A paper about Shanghai
A paper about water cities
A paper about Shanghai
This Paper about Shanghai provides an overview of the city, how it has changed since the year 2000, and how it is foreseen that it will develop moving forwards...
A paper about water cities
A paper about water cities
A paper about water cities
What is a water city, and what should we learn from their past and present for their future?
This Paper provides thoughts and ideas, looking at a range of such places...
Papers on aspects of urban sustainability
A paper about air conditioning
This paper focuses on air conditioning and its place in the need for cooling our urban environments. Yet the basic technology of the standard air conditioning unit rests largely unchanged for years. Is it time we changed our approach to keeping cool...?
A paper about concrete
The ubiquitous material of concrete is everywhere we look. Whilst it provides humanity with many benefits, these benefits come at a cost to the sustainability of our planet (as this BBC article also highlights). How can we use it responsibly and sustainably?
A paper about steel
A paper about copper
The global production of steel accounts for some 7-9% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Technology exists to improve steel production, and the World Steel Association provides environment and climate change guidance on their website.
Will the steel industry change?
A paper about copper
A paper about hydrogen
A paper about copper
The demand for, and use of copper (along with other metals) continues to rise. As the world moves toward a low carbon energy future, how will our use of copper be sustainable and responsible?
A paper about hydrogen
A paper about hydrogen
A paper about hydrogen
Our use of hydrogen for energy is not new. However, the way that we are finding out about using it is. How can we use hydrogen responsibly and sustainably as part of our global energy mix?
A paper about plastic
A paper about hydrogen
A paper about hydrogen
Plastic is an intrinsic part of the world economy – it is virtually everywhere we look.
How can we continue to use plastic responsibly and sustainably?