January 2012
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A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The... →
An interesting piece comparing successful cities to start up businesses
On stage at last month’s Le Web conferenceShervin Pishevar, a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, stated “The World is a Startup.” It’s an interesting perspective, and I think what’s true for the world is also true for countries, states and municipalities. With developments like last month’sannouncement that Cornell was...
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Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit: Are we thinking... →
Walker is my favorite transportation blogger. This is a review of his new book. Pretty good read.
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“In the great postwar building boom, developers froze on a pattern that used five...”
– William H. Whyte, The Last Landscape (via titularhumour)
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Three Innovative Finance Options for Retrofitting... →
Could these three innovative financing models from New York, California, and Melbourne make retrofitting cities more economically viable?
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The Social Media Enabled City →
IBM’s new webinar series kicks off with ‘The Social Media Enabled City’, covering innovative solutions to connect, collaborate and communicate with citizens through social media. It’s online and free to attend - register here.
"Every City uses between 20 to 40% of their budget...
mattiosmith:
That quote comes from a great video I found on YouTube about another lighting initiative called Echelon. It seems like they are imputing special chips which make a grid of streetlights that can be dimmed at certain times, saving up to 70% in some areas, somewhat similar to our idea but ours will be a lot more intelligent!
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CITY BREATHS: Urban Abstractions →
citybreaths:
Vienna-based studio Olschinsky, consisting of Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss, works at the intersection of illustration, graphic design and photography. Taking a look at their website, you’ll find imaginative works. I was particularly intrigued by these abstract illustrations filed under…
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5 Ways The Smart City Will Change How We Live In...
‘A city’s infrastructure is comprised of a number of systems, including transportation, sewage, utility, and public and private buildings. Urbanization and proliferation of these systems are key to quality of life, but also create a significant toll on the sustainability, energy efficiency and capacity level of a city. Smarter buildings technologies can help the government make it possible...
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BigApps: Advice from Previous Winner Aaron Royston →
How’s your app coming along? The deadline for NYC BigApps 3.0 submissions is coming up January 25th. For inspiration, we checked in with previous BigApps winners for words of wisdom for this year’s competitors. Read on for insights from Aaron Royston of Sportaneous, which is a location-based…
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Can you have a private city? The political... →
Andrew Comer and Kerwin Datu via The Global Urbanist
According to UN-HABITAT’s State of the World’s Cities 2008-2009, 510 new ‘small’ cities, 132 new ‘intermediate’ cities and 52 new ‘big’ cities emerged between 1990 and 2000, with a combined population of 254 million.
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Through trial and error, 'smart cities' are slowly... →
“The ‘smart city’ concept has existed for several years, but only now, with some trial and error, are we seeing the real fruits of these efforts coming to light. While the ambitions of Masdar City have been scaled back somewhat, Amsterdam is forging ahead, piloting a number of schemes to introduce smart technology to the way energy and other resources are managed within the...
December 2011
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CNN discusses climate adaptation in "Floods, heat,... →
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College Students: Be Part of IBM Global Student... →
How do you think businesses should be run, now and in the future?
Every two years, IBM speaks to thousands of CEOs about changes occurring in the business world. In 2010, we began surveying undergraduate and graduate students from around the world so that we can contrast the perspectives of students with CEOs. Side by side, these two groups provide a cross-generational view of leadership,...
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10 urban data visualization projects →
humanscalecities:
I have just published in my blog a compilation of 10 examples of urban data visualizations.
ITO-Road fatalities USA
Trash track
London Bike Share Map
Examining MetroCard usage
London Hire Bikes animation
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Mapumental
Day vs. Night population maps
LIVE Singapore!
In the air
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“Bikes are pretty cool, but if American cities really want to learn something...”
– Kasey Klimes (via Twitter)
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Kinzie Street: The First of Many Protected Bike Lanes for Chicago
In his campaign for mayor, Rahm Emanuel pledged to make Chicago a more bike-friendly city. And in office, he set his sights high, aiming to construct 100 miles of protected bike lanes in his first term.
His team wasted no time. Chicago DOT installed the city’s first protected bike lane on Kinzie Street before...
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“The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall...”
– Dr Tobias Schaedler on ‘the world’s lightest material’. How could this change our cities?
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Re-imagining the (smarter) vertical city
Over a billion of us live vertically: in deteriorating highrise buildings. In this new web-documentary, explore our 3D virtual space as residents, architects and animators re-imagine a bleak highrise neighbourhood into a thriving, smarter community.
Created at the legendary National Film Board of Canada, all in open-source technology.
http:/highrise.nfb.ca/onemillionthtower
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IBM CMO Study Part 2: Challenges in the Digital... →
In the second part of this series, we look at new digital challenges that IBM’s CMO study pinpoints, including the explosion of data and mobile devices.
In the first part of this article, we discussed how IBM’s new CMO study, which gathered information from nearly 2,000 chief marketing officers worldwide, reveals marketers lagging to keep up with new social media trends. In addition to this ...
November 2011
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World Bank: Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in... →
The World Bank published an easy to read guide to climate adaptation. The primary focus is to explain what adaptation is, and how city managers can adapt and lower risks to people, their homes, and businesses.
“Building resilience and adapting to climate change is increasingly a high priority for cities. Besides mitigation, on which efforts have largely focused in the past, cities should today...
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“How did snowy Minneapolis beat out Portland, Ore., for the title of best bike...”
– Lessons from America’s surprising No. 1 bike town - CSMonitor.com
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Rio de Janeiro 2011
The future of our planet depends on our cities. By 2050, that’s where seventy percent of the Earth’s population will be living—growing from 3.3 billion people today to a breathtaking 6.4 billion. This wave of urbanization presents enormous challenges and opportunities to all of us—but especially to city leaders, and especially now as broad consensus for change emerges, driven by...