{"id":125900,"count":20,"description":"More than half of the world's population is now living in cities and the worldwide trend of urbanisation is still continuing, in particular in emerging economies. Cities open up chances for individuals from rural communities to realise a better standard of living. However, a higher standard of living generally goes alongside higher energy consumption. In addition, an agglomeration of many people such as a large megacity creates further energy demands like for example mechanical cooling to alleviate urban heat island effects. Research within the group focusses on the role of buildings within sustainable city concepts and at a larger scale, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/publications\/co2-solent-region\/\">the energy performance of city-regions<\/a> in the context of their demographic and social makeup. \r\n\r\nFor more information about data in cities, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/energyandcities.org\/mydata\/\">MyData Portal<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/category\/research\/cities-and-infrastructure\/","name":"Cities and Infrastructure","slug":"cities-and-infrastructure","taxonomy":"category","parent":69,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/125900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/69"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=125900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}