TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL STREETS

Arterial Streets towards Sustainability

Towards More Pedestrian-friendly Streets in Cairo

(What Drives the Attractiveness of Commercial Streets; Case Study: Beheshti Street in Bojnord (Iran

Beheshti Street in Bojnord is one of two main arteries in the city’s commercial system, which is located in the city centre. Behashti Street, unlike most commercial streets, has no restaurants, coffee shops, fast-food stores, or any place to sit for recreation; however this street is too crowded every day, especially in the morning and in the period before the...

Towards Sustainable Food Consumption?

Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption are one of the major environmental concerns in the industrialised world today. Regarding production, organic agriculture is a more sustainable way of producing food than conventional farming. To facilitate for an expansion of the organic food production, there must be a corresponding increase in demand for organic products. The retailers, pos...

Towards Sustainable Open Source

Open source software is gaining momentum in several forms. In addition to the huge increase in the number of open source projects started and the remarkable rise of FLOSS adoption by companies and governments, new models of participation in the movement are emerging rapidly. For instance, companies are increasingly releasing some of their proprietary software systems as open source on one hand ...