September 2011
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Follow Tech and urban life for updates on smart...
I am curating Tech and urban life via Scoop.it, focusing on news and resources on smart cities. I am quite critic about the current buzz on smart cities but following news is relevant to be up to date.
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“The smartest cities are the ones that embrace openness, randomness and...”
– Not-So-Smart Cities – Greg Lindsay on what makes cities thrive. Noteworthy companion reading: 7 essential books on cities via curiositycounts (via shriyashriyashriya)
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Video: The Trailer for “Urbanized,” a Documentary About the Design of Cities - http://pulse.me/s/1PaJA
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The Social Media Week Video Happy Hour →
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Share Your Social Media Week stories with us via the fun new Spreecast social video platform
LIVE: Thursday Sept. 22, 11:00am ET Join us on Spreecast for a new kind of webcam jam where up to four people at a time can be onscreen and tell other SMW participants what they have seen and learned…
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“What would make commerce smarter via social media in Beirut? Berlin? Bogota?...”
– Social Commerce Scan Question 2 | Global/Local:
Join the Scan for Social Media Week, happening across cities around the world
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“Governments don’t lead revolutions. People do. The saying ‘Necessity is the...”
– Melissa Sterry envisages Earth 2.0. Read the full interview on This Big City.
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“There is a signal irony in the concentration of social skill within big cities....”
– Richard Florida, Where the Skills Are, The Atlantic
[via Roy Sinai] (via pdsmith)
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Shopping Centers for Cutting Transportation...
Many people use them, so why not make them more about community and more sustainable. I am talking about Shopping Malls. You get in your car, drive over, try to find a parking spot, get stressed out, and finally leave. What if malls were located on pedestrian streets that were easily accessible by bike, walking, and public transportation. Malls receive high traffic. By making them along pedestrian...
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“Despite its vast popularity local authorities tend to either ignore or prohibit...”
– Anna Plyushteva on the potential of urban agriculture in Africa.
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MIT’s Free Urban Planning Software Will Help Build The Cities Of The Future - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fastcompany/headlines/~3/yn491qNCMjo/open-source-program-released-to-redesigning-tomorrows-cities
Online Community Collaboration Tool Brings Town... →
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By Joe Peach and Kasey Klimes
Town Hall meetings are a nice idea. Invite the community to share their opinions, and hopefully improve the local area based on their suggestions. Unfortunately,…
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Mumbai: The Unplannable City: Approaches to Urban... →
How do we design for the unplanned/excluded?
How can we influence and encourage positive tangencies within constantly changing cities?
To explore these and other questions & issues please join us for the opening of the exhibition as well as a series of lectures on the subject.
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Greening the Concrete Jungle (The Economist)
THERE are many places in Illinois where you expect to find a prairie. The roof of City Hall in Chicago is not among them. Yet there it is—20,000 square feet (almost half an acre) of shrubs, vines and small trees, 11 storeys above LaSalle Avenue. Planted in 2000, City Hall’s “green roof” reduces the amount of energy needed to cool the building in the summer; captures water during rainstorms, thus...
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Urban-Urbane: Evidence that Humans may be... →
Urban density as the author of this article states, is a hot topic nowadays. There is strong evidence to suggest that high density land use is resource efficient. This is important information in a world where resources are dwindling. This article studied the habits of hunter-gatherer society…
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Urban Design Week 2011, New York →
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Watchhumanscalecities:
Infographics comparing real GDP growth rates from 2005-2020 for cities in China, USA and Europe.
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Peter Calthorpe on ‘Resilient Cities: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change’
From the California Academy of Sciences, via Fora TV:
This event is the second part of a two-part discussion featuring Bay Area architect and planner Peter Calthorpe, author of Sustainable Communities and Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, discusses the aspects of a livable city.
Click here for part 1 featuring...
