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The Centre for Liveable Cities and Urban Land Institute set out transferable lessons from five cities adapting to climate risk SINGAPORE (19 January 2021) – A new book from the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) and Urban Land Institute (ULI) has called on cities worldwide to recognize their common challenges in building climate resilience. It sets out a strategy for mobilizing individuals, whether in business, in government, in civic organizations or as residents, to act as global citizens and take steps towards making their cities more climate resilient. ‘Building Climate Resilience in Cities Worldwide: 10 Principles to Forge a Cooperative Ecosystem,’ presses the need for a whole-of-society approach that addresses other threats and inequalities alongside climate risks in order to win the cooperation of all stakeholders and achieve genuine, city-wide resilience. The best solutions, meeting specific local needs, are shown to have been developed
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HITLAB is excited to announce the HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance (BTA), has named Bill Taranto, president of Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Chair of the HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance through 2024. The HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance is a membership-based health consortium whose mission is to verify and diffuse digital health innovations through the generation of exclusive, evidence-based research and insights.
BTA evolved from the Digital Health Breakthrough Network (DBHN), which was a five-year partnership between HITLAB and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. DBHN spurred the successful diffusion of such startups as Biotia, KnowNow, Tatch, and Bonbouton. These innovations addressed a range of healthcare needs from motor skills therapies to sleep disorders.
As part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s larger plans to revamp the area around Penn Station, a new section of the High Line will connect to Moynihan Train Hall.
$60 Million High Line Expansion to Connect Park to Moynihan Train Hall
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 1,200-foot elevated pathway that will lead to the new Penn Station development, to be financed by public and private funds.
The High Line park in Manhattan would extend north and eastward under a new proposal from the state.Credit.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2021
For more than a decade, the High Line, an elevated park that stretches for nearly a mile and half through the West Side of Lower Manhattan, has been a symbol of ambitious urban renewal: a sleek, tree-lined walkway created from an old run-down rail line that cuts through once-industrial neighborhoods.