#urban planning News

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Traffic congestion, while a sign of economic growth in Asia, leads to gridlocks and pollution, but solutions like efficient public transport systems, such as electric vehicles and metro lines, along with higher parking fees and fuel prices, can encourage a shift towards more sustainable transportation options.
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Bangkok is launching city forests to help beat flooding by soaking up excess rainwater runoff. A new park slated to open in December will feature 4,500 trees, a floodplain and a weir to slow the flow of water; another newly opened US$20 million city forest acts as a sponge during the monsoon season.
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EB Studio Southeast Asia is a particularly vulnerable region to climate threats. Digital solutions may be key to helping the region shore up resilience against economic losses and increasing climate-induced extreme weather events.
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The development of Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo has resulted in clearing of mangrove forests that are home to threatened wildlife such as proboscis monkeys and Irrawaddy dolphins.
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#urban planning Opinion

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India's Ladakh is seeing a form of tourism which relies on climate grief and a desire to escape toxic cities.
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Low awareness of the link between heat and eco-anxiety in Indonesia requires a more comprehensive strategy in the campaign.
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While rainfall is important, how it is collected, stored and distributed is crucial to dealing with the region’s increasingly drier spells.
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Many cities in the Indo-Pacific have public transport stops close to at least half of their populations, but wider access remains a challenge.
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#urban planning Videos

Andie Ang Q&A
Amid competing concerns such as urban development and tackling climate change, keeping biodiversity conservation in people's minds can be a challenge. Eco-Business asks primatologist Andie Ang how that can be tackled.
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EB Studio Singapore gets through 2 million plastic bags a day. Why do Singaporeans use so many bags, and what will it take to reduce consumption?
An e-jeepney in the Philippines. A growing movement is underway to electrify Southeast Asia's transport. Image: Eco-Business
In gridlocked, smoggy Southeast Asian cities, change is afoot to electrify transport and clear some of the world's most polluted skies. This video documents the pockets of hope for e-mobility around the most climate-vulnerable region.
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The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
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#urban planning Podcasts

EB Podcast Dubai Sustainable City
Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.
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EB Studio If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.
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Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.
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What's it like co-writing a 3,500 page report on the dangers of climate change with hundreds of scientists worldwide, over Zoom calls during a pandemic? Eco-Business speaks to authors from the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore who were in the thick of the action.
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