How do retailers benefit from locating in a mixed-use property environment, rather than in more traditional setups elsewhere?

How much do you know about your carbon footprint and how to improve it? More to the point, how much do you care? This is why it matters and what you can do about it.

It’s no longer enough for city planners to look out for our physical wellbeing, for example by making sure the built environment doesn’t injure us, but it’s also essential that cities are designed with our mental health in mind.

Creating a better work environment, while also being sustainable and more eco-friendly, has become a worldwide trend. There are many benefits to environmentally friendly office spaces.

It’s the simplest way of getting around and it’s been with us for almost two million years – walking. City planners are increasingly incorporating ‘walkability’ in urban areas, by planning and designing on a more human scale.

There is no simple solution to the urbanisation. City authorities across the globe are grappling with running growing metropolitan areas – maintaining law and order, regulating traffic flows, delivering services, managing waste and more.

There are many pluses to spending time in a mixed-use precinct. Security and convenience usually top this list, but leisure is a close second. As one of the safest public areas in Johannesburg, Melrose Arch is the perfect place to spend a day.

Working in a smart city, compared with a traditional office, has distinct benefits – chief among them flexible working arrangements. Smart cities create conditions where employees no longer have to be cemented to a single location, while also improving quality of life in other ways.

What comes to mind when you hear the words “smart city”? Most of us will say technology, because all the smart devices we know, are technological things. But living in a smart city means more than that, as you’ll see when looking more closely at some of the elements that characterise it.

Johannesburg has a number of excellent museums on the contemporary history of South Africa. Make Melrose Arch your base and within a radius of just 15km you’ll find a number of places that share the remarkable stories of our country. Far from being depressing reminders of a turbulent past or harbingers of a bleak future,…