The City Topic

  120 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of the humid rainforest, the construction site of new Capital of Equatorial Guinea is making progress. This city, officially named Ciudad de la Paz (Spanish for "City of Peace" and formerly Oyala), is located in the district of Djibloho, in the central part of the country's mainland. Its construction is intended to serve as Equatorial Guinea's seat of government, replacing Malabo, on Bioko Island, as the national capital. Despite being one of the largest projects in West Africa, information on the city's current development is rather limited. Although the official move to the new capital was planned for 2017, Malabo continues to host government buildings, as well as embassies and headquarters of international organizations. Here, a look at the history, design and controversies surrounding the new capital city of Equatorial Guinea. The boom of petrodollars With around 28,000 square kilometres, Equatorial Guin

According to reports published by The Trasnport Politic and Governing.com , there is an inverse relationship between the percentage of daily car trips and the urban density of major cities in the United States. The graph shows that the American city with the least use of cars for daily trips is New York. In this metropolis, before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 22% of trips were made by private car. At the same time, this is the city with the highest reported urban density. In the opposite case there are cities like San Antonio, Houston, Charlotte and Phoenix. In these urban areas, with densities below 5,000 people per square mile, the percentage of daily trips to work by car was over 70% before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most extensive BRT system in the world is Transjakarta in Indonesia. This BRT network began operations in 2004 and today it has a total of 251 km of exclusive service corridors. TransJakarta, a system that was inspired by the BRTs of Curitiba and Bogotá, today has 13 lines in the metropolitan area of ​​Jakarta and it is part of the public transport network of the Indonesian capital along with the city's metro and light rail (MRT - LRT) Source: brtdata.org TransJakarta. Source

  When we talk about urban development in the U.S., there is one word that will always be present in any discussion: the  sprawl. The endless suburbs of the country's largest cities are the product of decades of urban planning based on the "American way of life", creating low-density districts, surrounded by nature (or at least meadows) and connected to the financial centres by highways. A "car-oriented" development with consequences that have already been widely studied and which have contributed to the environmental crisis that the world is suffering today. In contrast to suburban sprawl, different concepts have emerged in recent years that favour a more compact, efficient and less auto-dependent urban model. This is the case of the “15-minute city”, which according with Patrick Sisson from The City Monitor , “the 15-minute city is an approach to urban design that aims to improve quality of life by creating cities where everything a resident needs can be reach