January 2011
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Indianapolis Must Reinvent Itself Again →
Source: The Urbanophile
Indianapolis has often been referred to as the “Diamond of the Rust Belt,” but its performance goes far beyond just being the best house on a bad block. Yet despite outperforming not just the Midwest, but America as a whole, long term challenges facing Marion County put the region at risk.
Few seem truly aware of how impressive metro Indy’s performance has been. Compared...
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“There seems to be a popular belief that what it takes to create an industry...”
– The Urbanophile » Replay: The Importance of Social Structures to Urban Success
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China to make largest city in the world by... →
climateadaptation:
Facts:
26 times the size of London
1/10th of China’s economy, growing at 4+%
Highly industrialized section of China - lots of pollution
Searching for a new name for the new city
29 rail lines, 3100 miles of track (NYC has 24 lines, and 800 miles of track)
42 million people -…
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New York's quest to become 'the digital city'
Even the basic driving directions from New York City to IBM Research’s headquarters in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., make the whole thing sound like an arm-twisting inconvenience worthy of the difficulty that the city’s metro region has had in fostering Silicon Valley-style innovation: “Take the Sprain.”
That’d be the Sprain Brook Parkway, a squiggle of highway that...
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climateadaptation asked: Hello, Wow what a gorgeous tumblr! If people like me submit something to you, will you all attribute the poster's name? Or is anonymous? Thank you, Michael
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why are these always on 24-7???
I was in the car with my ten year old sister when she presented me with this great question…
“why are those cross walk signs on all the time? its not like anyone is going to really be out walking around right now.”
I live in Michigan and its the middle of winter and there is a lot of snow on the ground. The sidewalks on all sides of the crosswalk weren’t shoveled and...
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the creation of the subdivision is a disaster to the environment. as urban sprawl happens, the question becomes more prevalent… why build an area where the people only live, but must commute for a long time to get to work, etc.. The typical family relies ever so much on their cars, and there is not as much neighbourhood interaction anymore. We should be building cities that actually have...
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WatchWhat Makes Cities Smart - TIME.com
Prominent U.S. Mayors discuss what is needed to build intelligent cities that can compete in the global economy
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“Companies and civic agencies need to develop innovative partnerships with city...”
– How To Save America’s Cities With Data Analytics - Forbes.com
“Whenever the City builds new bicycle infrastructure on a stretch of road there...”
– http://www.copenhagenize.com/
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How can students make their cities smarter? -... →
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Digital, Intelligent, Smart Cities: Ten years... →
This collection of books from 2000 to 2010 examines the role and contribution of information technologies, the Internet, innovation ecosystems and institutions to the making of the 21st century cities.
Books are presented by chronological order of publication and summaries are by the authors or publishers.
humanscalecities:
“If people do not have a direct bodily or kinesthetic relation to their city they...”
– Thomas Sieverts in an interview to Sustainable Cities
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social infrastructure
our cities are so congested, specifically in asia. we do not have proper social infrastructure, it means we do not have enough school, hospital, multiplex, shopping complex, parks in our cities. which is the basic need of a city. these places need big land. it is very hard to get big land at a single place.
if we will not reform that situation then there will houses everywhere and...
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automatic email and phone call on the vent of fire
A device should be developed which will detect fire and will send a phone call and email to fire brigade, central monitoring system(a city call center for managing automatic fires and theft call), neighbors, mobiles of special recipients, personal security etc.
Cities in 2035 →
citybreaths:
“Cities will be too big and complex for any single power to understand and manage them. They already are, in fact. The word “city” will lose some of its meaning: it will make less and less sense to describe agglomerations of tens of millions of people as if they were one place, with one identity….
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Business analytics software helps zoo increase... →
smarterplanet:
The Cincinnati Zoo expects a $350,000 jump in revenue the first year and an additional 50,000 new visits through its use of business analytics from IBM.
The zoo wanted to maximize a recent increase in attendance and raise guest spending, which would allow management to provide increased…
IBM Relaunches Smarter City Initiative With An... →
smarterplanet:
IBM has relaunched it’s Smarter City initiative and the website portal is something you should visit to experience. It is truly an immersive, interactive experience designed to show how cities all over the world are using advanced technology to help address some of the biggest problems facing our planet.
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Precursor to Smarter Cities
Let us not forget that success is in the details, and we have social problems that need to be resolved before we can progress as a society into a better world. We need to publish a series of checklists or to do lists of the work that needs to be done and allow individual households to contribute to society by offering them this kind of blueprint for action. If we are to realize our destination,...
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Vulnerability of large cities to climate hazards →
visualoop:
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“The greatest urban renewal project of our entire life is going to be making the...”
– Richard Florida, Urbanist. (via geniusavant)
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The Rockefeller Foundation on “the future of... →
roomthily:
There are also some inherent issues with any foregrounding of a technologized vox populi.
The most obvious is that recourse to “crowdsourcing” dovetails all-too-neatly with the neoliberal retreat from governance, in a process thatLaura Forlano forthrightly calls “offloading” (a more…
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"Technology & The City" Reading List →
pncacd:
This class reading list by Greg J. Smith & Matthew & Matthew Talsma looks pretty great.
Week 1: 20th Century Urban Theory
Week 2: Networked Urbanism
Week 3: Negotiating the City
Week 4: Memory & The City
Week 5: GIS, State & Society
Week 6: DIY Cartography, Counter Cartography & Sounding the City
Week 7: Google & The Archive
Week 8: Technology &...
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Five Sustainability Tools for the Built...
thisbigcity:
With sustainability an increasingly important factor in decision-making, building developments are less likely to be driven by economic gain alone. To be considered truly sustainable, social, environmental and economic needs must be taken into account. However, achieving comprehensive sustainability is complex, resulting in numerous tools emerging for a sustainable built environment...
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African Cities to Triple in Size | Sustainable...
Traffic in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Nick M.
Much of the growth of cities this century will take place in Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. Already the region has about 200 million people living in slums, the highest number in the world, according to the United Nations. It was a little over a year ago that the continent’s population topped a billion; by early 2040, a billion people alone...
CITY BREATHS: Future cities →
citybreaths:
“Cities will be smart. They will be more beautiful, more exquisitely made in parts and more assembled ad hoc in other parts. More resourceful and more transparently knowable. Unlike today’s “dumb cities” that sit like the dead materials that they are, future cities will be alive in a Biomimicry…
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“Located in Cidade Nova, the Rio Operations Center will integrate and...”
– IBM Technology Solutions to Make Rio de Janeiro a Smarter City 