In Romania, the retailer Carrefour offered a powerful shopping experience for all Star Wars fans: obtaining the Force and using it while shopping.Using the Kinect technology, customers could move their selected items into a virtual shopping basket using…
Chicago is currently living a very cold and snowy winter. In order to attract new visitors from the “Windy City”, Puerto Rico Tourism collected salt from the island's beaches and gave pots of it to Chicagoans to help them defrost their snow-covered…
… On February 4 th 2013, JCDecaux together with Nissan, Dubai Airports and Mindshare, …
… 'a little summer in the winter,' and that's exactly what JCDecaux brought to the streets of the Netherlands for this …
The BSSR map is one of a kind: it is the first ever about Europe’s population shifts that provides such accurate data. The BSSR – the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development – collected data from all of…
… The light comes from environmental-friendly sources. JCDecaux Iceland implemented a campaign for Orkusalan, a …
Recent years saw a growing popularity of urban running, as evidenced by the impressive number of participants in the numerous races organized in cities around the world. This went hand in hand with the development of mobile and tracking technologies,…
New figures unveiled this week by Transport for London show that London's traffic has clearly slowed down, from 19.33 miles per hour in 2012 to an average of just 16.5 miles per hour this year.Many diverse factors explain this trend. London is currently…
In Guatapé, a little town in the Antioquia Department of Colombia, colours are kind of a religion. All buildings are entirely covered with vivid paintings that have various meanings. Some of them indicate local businesses, or the beliefs of residents…
This Focus, second component of a trilogy dedicated to the innovative ways through which citizens can directly take action to change their cities, will look at crowdsourcing as a powerful tool to empower citizens, enhance mobility and create better…
The "Social Swipe" is an interactive poster set-up by German agency Kolle-Rebe at Hamburg International Airport, encouraging people to donate to charitable organization Misereor.To make donations easy and concrete, the poster features a slit in the middle…
You think the cold winters of Scandinavian countries are depressing? It seems to be the opposite, as they top the ranking of the World Happiness Report 2016.Denmark is considered the world's happiest country, followed by Iceland, Norway and Finland. Most…
As part of a competition organized by the City of Stockholm, Swedish agency Belatchew Architects unveiled the project of a giant parking garage for bicycles.The building will have the capacity to hold 700 bikes and is designed to meet the specific needs…
American "National Association of City Transportation Officials" (NACTO) recently published a study entitled "Walkable station spacing is key to successful, equitable bike share".Based on data from five different cities (Minneapolis, Boston, Washington,…
… JCDecaux has been selected as Baku's long term streetfurniture partner. For the first time JCDecaux has installed … phone and internet. The introduction of such functional streetfurniture comes just in time for Eurovision which …
What is a bike-friendly city? For sure, a city that invests in bike infrastructure or develops an efficient bike sharing service, a place where cycling is both safe and easy, like Amsterdam or Copenhagen. If US cities seem far behind these two cycling…
Following the launch of the world famous video game Angry Birds on Samsung Smart TV, the Korean brand has transformed Madrid’s Nuevos Ministerios district into a large playground.Visitors were invited to experiment the new gesture control system developed…
The charge cycle project proposes both a funny and healthy way to charge your smartphone in the street.This project imagined by American designers David Krawczyk and Navjot Kaur consists on stationary bikes equipped with an iPhone dock allowing users to…
Mexico is the country with the highest proportion of overweight people in the world.In order to encourage Mexicans to take up physical exercise, French insurance company Axa launched the "Kilos malos, Kilos sanos" ("Bad kilos, good kilos") public health…