City

New Libeskind project to bring further regeneration to Łódź with series of ‘cultural hubs’ highlighting city’s innovation and creativity

The first building to be created will be the Łódź Architecture Centre which is set to occupy a prominent place in the historic centre of the city and is intended to act as a cultural gateway. Studio Libeskind

The project, called Nexus21 in collaboration with the cultural institution inLodz21, will see the transformation of neglected buildings and spaces on 21 residential, commercial and public space plots, into cultural hubs designed to highlight the city’s innovation and creativity in industries such as architecture, textiles, fashion and film, all of which are a key part of the city’s heritage.

Bringing nature back to the city

In this episode of The Debrief, the first in a series of interviews on the changing face of Polish cities… To kick off, how can nature and green space be incorporated into the urban wild?

I-spy: Poznań firm set to revolutionise how cities are monitored with innovative smart surveillance system

Although looking very similar to traditional CCTV, Inwebit’s Smart Security Platform (SSP) uses advanced algorithms for identifying specific events based on image and sound analysis and sensor data.

Kraków FIFTH greenest city in the world, says new ranking

The report by the Husqvarna Urban Green Space Index (HUGSI), which ranked 155 cities in 60 countries in terms of their green spaces using computer vision and deep learning techniques on satellite images, listed Kraków in 5th place with a score of 76.92 percent.

Warsaw is becoming a city of cars - daily

Warsaw has become a car city, with more registered vehicles in the capital than residents, according to a city councillor quoted by the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.

Wrocław and Warsaw ‘punching above their weight’ says report which ranks them as 15th and 20th Global Cities of the Future

Noting the cities’ strong performance, fDi Intelligence wrote that “Poland certainly appears to be punching above its weight.” It added: “Poland is upholding its reputation of having a well-educated workforce, coupled with good cost effectiveness.”

Białystok one of best places to live, says new report

The newly published European Commission report looked at 83 cities across Europe including Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków and Białystok with data from over 58,000 interviews.

The Fab Four getaways to look forward to in 2021

Coinciding with the launch of PKP’s 2021 timetable, TFN takes a whistle stop look at the four big cities that will comprise the foundations of their offer in the year ahead.

Going green: the eco revolution awaiting downtown Kraków

Plans have been released that envisage a central Kraków transport hub as a futuristic environmentally-friendly enclave.

They built this city… actually they didn’t! Fascinating hand-drawn plans reveal how Warsaw could have looked

The architects’ utopian vision of the capital saw, among other things, a vast swathe of greenery measuring four times the length of New York’s Central Park, a huge sunken amphitheatre built on the southern fringe of Pl. Trzech Krzyży and Pl. Unii Lubelskiej as a vast square of almost dehumanizing dimensions.

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