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Container ship Edith Maersk crosses the Suez Canal at East Port Said Port / Credits: Reuters

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Workers are seen silhouetted as they repair lights on a globe structure outside a mall in Manila. / Credits: Reuters

Mobility: Interview What holds the world together KPMG’s James Stewart, Chairman of Global Infrastructure & Stephen Beatty, ... more

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allianz knowledge on mobility: An Afghan girl drinks from a water pipe.

Allianz knowledge on mobility: a view of a sewage treatment plan in Nicaragua.

allianz knowledge on mobility: a view of a collapsed highway bridge in minneapolis

allianz knowledge on mobility: Indian girls study by candlelight during a blackout

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allianz knowledge on mobility: An Afghan gardener waters plants in front of a satellite dish.

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allianz knowledge on mobility: railway workers check the track along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

Allianz knowledge on mobility: a view of an aircraft engine and a plane taking off.

allianz knowledge on mobility: a man fishes in a Tokyo harbour beside a container ship.

Allianz knowledge on mobility: a girl in Mozambique reads from a blackboard

Allianz knowledge on mobility: a makeshift clinic in Ossetia

allianz knowledge on mobility: People walk on a footbridge designed by renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer

Mobility The infrastructure the world needs The world faces an infrastructure crisis. The basic facilities needed for societies to ... more

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Mobility: Interview Solar storms could wreak havoc Michael Bruch, risk consultant at the industrial insurer Allianz Global ... more

Mikko Hypponen, cybersecurity expert, speaks during TEDGlobal 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. "Stuxnet ... / Credits: James Duncan Davidson / Conferencias TED

Mobility: Interview End of the internet as we know it? Cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure ... more

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What if a family member loses mobility through an accident or a disease? / Credits: Shutterstock

Mobility: Interview Universal design: Building for the future Kai Fischer, Head of Construction Finance at Allianz Germany, explains ... more

Woman in a wheelchair on top of stairs.

New buildings are often now constructed with barrier-free features like ramps and elevators.

An oversized door handle, easy to manipulate for people with reduced manual dexterity.

Automatic doors operated by the push of an easily accessible release buzzer.

Old homes without barrier-free living features can be refurbished with ramps and stairlifts to cater for people with disabilities.

Picture of a woman in front of an elevator.

People in wheelchairs need special desks to access computer keyboards and move around more freely.

Two simple metal bars turn a normal bathroom into a facility that also caters to people with a walking disability.

Free-standing sinks that leave enough space underneath for a wheelchair are important for a more accessible bathrooms.

Specific road sign reminds drivers not to assume that all pedestrians are able to see an arriving car.

Mobility Ten strategies for barrier-free living More than 650 million people worldwide are disabled, but there are tools and features ... more

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Mobility Aging populations and universal design Aging populations in industrialized countries prompt architects, designers, and ... more

Project Coral Reef, Haiti

Project “Anti-Smog” was set up in 2008 to fight Parisian air pollution

The Dragonfly building in New York City would be a completely self-sustaining ecosystem

The Landscript concept tries to remodel a 220-hectare industrial area on the outskirts of Geneva in Switzerland

The Lilypad Floating City is a concept for a completely self-sufficient, floating city intended to provide shelter for potential climate refugees

This artificial harbour aims at renaturalizing the urban landscape and increasing real estate availability

Physalia is a concept for an amphibious garden in a ship’s body that would navigate around European rivers

Mobility Green cities: Urban utopias Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has come up with some futuristic concepts of what the ... more

Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina. / Credits: Reuters

Pedestrians cross an overhead bridge at night in Central Hong Kong. Providing such overpasses is ... / Credits: Reuters

Mobility: Interview Walkable cities key to mobility of elderly International Transport Forum Young Researcher of the Year, Dr. Wing Yee Winnie ... more

Mobility Seamless transportation for leaner, greener growth At the “Davos of Transport”, attendees agree: sustainable mobility requires ... more

Electric smart compact cars of German car manufacturer Mercedes are lined up at a charging station ... / Credits: Reuters

Mobility Smart grids and electric vehicles: a perfect match? If electric vehicles are to replace conventional cars, how will power networks ... more