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• The "Chinese Independent OEMs' ADAS and Autonomous Driving Report, 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• Wide adoption of NOA begins, and local brands grab market share.
• From January to August 2023, independent brands took up 1.9% of installations of L2.9 systems, up 1 percentage point from that in 2022.
• In general, the 'involution' in the NOA market has stimulated OEMs to quickly implement high-level driving assistance for greater competitive edges.

• St. Louis, Missouri--(Newsfile Corp. - October 5, 2023) - Enterprise, the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) and the National Hockey League (NHL®) today announced a multiyear extension of their North American partnership.
• "Our longstanding partnership with the NHL and NHLPA has created an incredible platform for us to reach new mobility audiences across North America," said Kyle Sanborn, Vice President of Global Brand Strategy & Marketing Activation at Enterprise Holdings.
• The brand will maintain local market partnerships with a number of NHL Clubs and will continue to activate around NHL tentpole events like the NHL Winter Classic®, NHL® All-Star Game, NHL Stadium Series™, and Stanley Cup® Playoff games.
• NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup and the word mark NHL Winter Classic are registered trademarks and the NHL Winter Classic logo, NHL All-Star logo and NHL Stadium Series name and logo are trademarks of the National Hockey League.

• Debates over densities in our cities divide between advocates of low-rise detached housing and supporters of higher-density towers.
• Decades of planning for urban consolidation has made little difference – medium density is still missing in many of our cities.
• Read more:
  Houses and high-rises (and nothing in between): why land zoning hasn't been effective for improving urban density

Lack of clarity bedevils density debates

• In debates about urban density, there’s often a confused mix of different conceptions and measures of density.
• For example, the widely used measure of dwellings per hectare conflates building and population densities, capturing neither with precision.
• Often such debates don’t consider basic distinctions such as those between building and population densities, residential and job densities, internal and external densities (inside and outside buildings), measured and perceived densities.
• Read more:
  Urban density matters – but what does it mean?

Buzzwords don’t solve the problem

• This tendency has been often countered through linguistic attempts to reframe the term.
• For example, in Vancouver, Canada, the urbanist Brent Toderian has been calling for “density done well”.
• Other terms include “Goldilocks density” – “not too high, not too low, but just right” – “optimal-quality density” and “EcoDenCity”.
• Our research shows that planning professionals in Melbourne associate “density done well” with neighbourhoods as different as North Perth, Western Australia, and Friedrichshain in Berlin.

Getting density right depends on local contexts

• The block is formed by attached buildings aligned with the streets with a large communal courtyard in the middle.
• It’s common and well understood in Europe (Friedrichshain is an example above), but less so in Australia and North America.
• Research testing these criteria for Melbourne shows only five larger pockets come close to meeting them, with floor area ratios of 0.6-0.7.
• This will require increased urban density literacy, through formal and informal education, as well as public deliberation, so we can build cities as diverse as our societies.

• As the AOR, BLAZE was brought on earlier this year to launch both the brand and their line of Denago eBikes.
• "With BLAZE, it was immediately apparent that they are committed to the needs of their clients and provide a custom approach to each project.
• BLAZE PR President Matt Kovacs adds, "We are thrilled to be working with Bike.com.
• In addition to Bike.com, BLAZE PR also represents a variety of other sustainably-minded organizations, including Boxed Water, NadaMoo!