Plus de 20.000 plantes et arbres, soit l’équivalent de deux hectares de forêt sur deux immeubles: nées de l’imagination de l’architecte italien Stefano Boeri, les deux tours Bosco Verticale (« forêts verticales ») à Milan ont fait des émules et leur concept s’exporte dans le monde entier, des Pays-Bas à la Chine.
Sidewalk Labs, the smart city subsidiary of Alphabet with the stated goal of “reimagining cities from the Internet up,” now has a very big sandbox in which to conduct its high-tech experiments. The Google spinoff announced a deal with the city of Toronto to develop 800 acres of waterfront property into its own digital utopia.
« The notion of cities switching completely to solar, wind, hydro and other renewable energy sources has long seemed fanciful. But a new international platform shows this is achievable. »
