A pressing challenge in post-Soviet cities and towns is the conversion of modernist planning into a contemporary and sustainable built environment.
A second coal fired power plant for the Tajik capital
January 17, 2018 | Read more
Tajikistan has long suffered from serious energy shortages, but is a new coal power plant really the answer?
Gacko: if only the laws were as strong as the air pollution
January 16, 2018 | Read more
Gacko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is home to a coal power plant and an open cast mine and it has a serious smog problem. But you wouldn’t know it from official measurements because the local air quality rules are uniquely lax, and there are no publicly available, official measurements.
Talking too much in the marshrutka: how I came to treasure Saventi
January 16, 2018 | Read more
Rosa Vroom, author of the multimedia hub ‘Sventi is my homeland’, reflects on what makes the region and its people so special
Another nail is in the coffin of the controversial Pljevlja II coal power plant in Montenegro with the main contractor exiting the project.
Pyromaniacs in Budapest want to burn EU funds in new waste incinerator
December 22, 2017 | Read more
With its plans to build a new waste incinerator in Budapest with EU funding support, Hungary’s government not only ignores the opportunity to make it’s cities cleaner and healthier, but also piles up costs its citizens will have to pay in the future.
