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...
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In Rio, Making Cities Smarter | Reuters →
The numbers surrounding urbanization worldwide are staggering. In 2008, the number of people living in cities, for the first time in civilization, surpassed the number of people living in rural settings. Although urbanization is happening on every continent, the story could not be more dramatic in China, where urban migration will add 350 million people - more than the entire U.S....
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This is the video of the recent keynote I presented at the Infopress Réseaux Sociaux (social networks) event in Montreal. The talk is called An Architecture For Cooperation, and is a much longer version of the TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 talk I gave last week, which should be available for viewing in a few weeks.
The slides for the Montreal talk can be viewed here. The slides are not shown in the...
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Rethinking urban mobility from scratch.
重新開始思考都市行動方式。
via thisbigcity & ragtag
Learn more about the Mo system at www.mo-bility.com
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Boston is getting an 'Innovation Center' to serve... →
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Find the best food trucks in New York - Tweat.it,... →
A real time map of NY food trucks.
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