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Egypt 🇪🇬 is building a 2000km high-speed rail network, with top speeds of 230km/h 🚅🚅 🚅 When finished it will be the 1️⃣ 6th largest high speed rail network in the world, 2️⃣ connecting 60 cities & 90 million people, 3️⃣ reducing carbon emissions by 70%.

They understood the assignment ➡️ Berlin 🇩🇪 Public Transport 🚌🚇🚃 can now be used cash-less, as we write the year 2021. The ad @BVG_Kampagne is wild👇👇 xitter.cf/BVG_Kampagne/status/14…

👀 There are trains, and then there are Swiss trains🇨🇭

Aerial photograph looking south over Manhattan, circa 1931. Compact and connected planning for a great public transport, walking and cycling city🚲🚶‍♂️🚇

This is leadership➡️ Paris 🇫🇷 plans to open up the city centre for walking, cycling and quality of life🚶‍♂️🚲 🌳 ➡️ Busses, Taxis and resident’s cars are permitted 🚘🚍🚕 HT @Lelievre_Adrien

The value of land is governed by its accessibility and by the reasonable time to reach it. Comparing accessibility of a 19th century urban grid pattern Vs. a post 1950 suburban cul-de-sac pattern 👇 How far can you go by 🚗car in 2m 🚲cycling in 5m 🚶walking in 10m

Two thousand years of global temperatures in twenty seconds 👇👇 🎥 Ben Gregory

The Barcelona 🇪🇸 superblocks are about so much more than traffic calming. Superblocks are about nurturing social cohesion by putting human interactions back at the centre of communities and developing the full potential of streets👇👇

End of the Road How long will countries allow new cars with internal combustion engines? Via @colinmckerrache

Transitioning to water-resilient cities will require collaborative action and alignment across hydrologically linked regions as well as public sectors at various levels of government.

Please do also have a look at this great resource on 'The resilient infrastructure opportunity' by @hallegatte @junrentschler @julierozenberg documents1.worldbank.org/cur…

We are currently preparing a publication - to be launched this fall - which will capture the holistic thinking and best practices required to create more resilient cities and transport systems. Stay tuned.

Here is just one great example to increase urban water resilience👇 Rotterdam’s Water Plazas. A series of connected community squares that can capture up to 1.7 million liters of water in the case of extreme weather events.

A key task of urban planning in the age of the climate crisis is to increase water retention in human settlements to cushion extreme weather events. A variety of options is available 👇

For all critical infrastructure sectors, poorer countries experience the highest utilization rate losses due to disruptions

The resilience of infrastructure must be considered at several overlapping and complementary levels 👇👇

The conditions we have been used to and have historically designed most of our urban developments around, are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. In the time of intensifying natural disasters, infrastructures are under pressure to deliver resilient and reliable services.