Brussels writes the EU’s urban climate playbook

Two years after the Eixample’s expansion of the superblock model, the most-asked question among visiting city-halls is no longer how, it’s how did the politics survive.

From Lausanne to Lyon, four cities have lifted Zurich's whole-life-cost tender template. We tracked the document's spread, talked to the procurers who adopted it, and asked the original author if he expected…

A small contracting irregularity in 2024 became a year-long parliamentary inquiry, then became the most stringent municipal procurement law in central Europe. The before-and-after, with the names that matter.