July 2010
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Watchsmarterplanet:
Catch the replay of the July 29th vPanel Webcast on social entrepreneurs, millenials and the findings about future leaders, part of the results from IBM’s 2010 Global CEO Study.
The New Intelligence Video Studio: http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence
The Future Leaders Study: http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders
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IBM and Carnegie Mellon University announce a partnership to create a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon
It would’ve been nice if municipal officials had advance warning that water mains on 25th Street in the South Side and Bower Hill Road in Mt. Lebanon were going to rupture on Wednesday.
It would’ve been nice if workers in Downtown office buildings didn’t ...
A wider world of Transportation
The 21st century, having been described in the past as having hover cars, and a wealth of transport. But has this become a reality? well, not exactly
While research is being undertaken for new technologies, they go largely unused.
The most disapointing of which, is the MAGLEV train, a well designed train, that has been constructed in Germany, as well as Eastern Asian Countries. The train would...
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Shanghai's 2010 World Expo Exposes Challenges for... →
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Fast Company | The Government’s Landlord Smartens... →
By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “decade of smart,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building?
Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even non-profits…
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spime:
Invisible Cities maps information from one realm—online social networks—to another: an immersive, three dimensional space.
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Watch ‘Plant Room’ Attaches To Apartments For Green Living | Huffington Post
New Zealand students designed the “Plant Room”, an attachable box that bolts on to the exterior of an apartment building, providing cramped city-dwellers an area to garden.
Additionally, the room captures rainwater to use in its garden, has a compost system, and even uses solar power to heat water for the apartment.
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CovJam sets city on route to become smarter →
smarterplanet:
Back in June I mentioned how Coventry was running the worlds first city-wide Jam to open up a conversation with residents and business to find innovative ways to make the city smarter.
A month…
A Smarter Planet: What's a VPanel? →
Join us for our next “web-cam-jam”…. four experts conversing via webcam on our Livestream channel, with interactive Q&As with viewers via chat and Twitter.
The dialogue extends the findings in our Future Leaders study, based on interviews with 3600 undegraduate and graduate students,…
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London’s new highway system… for bikes |... →
From London Mayor Boris Johnson, “These radial routes are set to transform our great city into one where cycling is the first choice for many thousands of Londoners. As well as being good for your health and wallet, encouraging more people to commute to work by bike will in turn help us improve air quality, cut carbon emissions and reduce congestion on the transport network.”
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Fighting 'food deserts' with groceries at the...
utnereader:
From the Governing magazineIdea Center:
Two Baltimore libraries now have another service to offer their patrons: grocery ordering and pickup. The City Health Department’s Virtual Supermarket Project (VSP) lets patrons living in “food deserts”—areas without shops offering healthy food at reasonable prices—order and pickup groceries at the library. Once a week, library...
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Watchmichaelpoos:
“Pavement to Parks” a growing movement and planning practice in the US.
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smarterplanet:
New Rollable Solar Panels Make Roof Installations a Snap! | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
We cover a lot of solar panel technologies here at Inhabitat — some are pie in the sky, some are a few years down the road and some are exciting products that are actually available today. SoloPower’s new flexible rolling solar panels are in the latter group, and they stand...
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“After three years of false starts, there is renewed interest in a congestion...”
– Chicago Drivers Inch Toward Congestion Pricing | Planetizen
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“Usman Haque - founder of pachube.com - started by discounting the subject of the...”
– Data and the City: Essential to Human Survival? | Sustainable Cities Collective
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smarterplanet:
Queen’s SURP Alumni
This fall, First and Second Avenues will be redesigned to accommodate Manhattan’s first Select Bus Service. The new M15 SBS will introduce some features that have radically improved bus systems abroad—and avoid others that planners have deemed too controversial. 1. Pay on the street More than a third of all bus delays can be attributed to the time it takes...
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LivingSocial Now Offers Daily Deals For 52 Cities...
LivingSocial, the daily deal site that is often referred to as the main competitor to Groupon (see our extensive guide on group-buying sites in the United States and beyond here), is experiencing fast growth.
Rather than launching in one new city on a regular basis, like Groupon tends to do, the company this morning announced that it has added 25 live markets to its roster, nearly...
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Crowdsourcing Public Data | Open Cities
In an era of tight public budgets, cities need all the help they can get. Crowdsourcing is one strategy that cities can adopt to enlist the help, knowledge and time of their citizens. Applications like SeeClickFix have already shown how valuable crowdsourcing can be for tracking community and infrastructure issues. Now, two examples from California are showing how such an effort can work to...
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Bamboo Houses to the Rescue
Bamboo houses combat climate change, encourage economic growth and protect the poor from natural disaster. Why aren’t there more of them?
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Intoxicated by possibility: Indian urban transport... →
For quite some time I have been observing the guys at Mapunity slowly revolutionize Indian urban transport by developing smart info systems. Now, their technology is used in a number of cities - Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Vadodara - to create real-time…
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Thoughts on "The Power Broker" →
In a 1998 speech at a Brookings Institution-sponsored conference on the future of American cities, Robert Caro offered what must surely be one of the clearest statements of the purpose of a city. In the end, Caro concluded, “a city has to be a home to its people.” This is to say that…
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China to become an Urban country by 2015 →
It was reported in various outlets yesterday that by 2015 China is projected to officially become an Urban society - meaning more people will live in the nation’s cities rather than the more traditional rural lifestyle.
For thousands of years, China has been an agrarian society. Only since the…
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Retrofitting Suburbia →
kristiankelley:
Ellen Dunham Jones speaks of major retrofitting to improve the financial and social sustainability of suburbia. This is an inspiring video however I tend to believe in small suburban retrofits like connecting streets, allowing business and multifamily in single family residential buildings, using our unused landscape and providing walkways off of arterials. If we do these small...
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Browse Submissions to Slate's Nimble Cities...
Nimble Cities The world’s cities are getting crowded. The majority of the global population already lives in urban areas, and by 2030, this number is predicted to grow to 5 billion. So we want Slate readers’ best proposals for solving an increasingly relevant problem: how to move the most people around and between cities in the most efficient, safe, and perhaps even pleasurable...
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