January 2012
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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...
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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CNN discusses climate adaptation in "Floods, heat,... →
Dec 31st
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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,...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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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
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“Bikes are pretty cool, but if American cities really want to learn something...”
– Kasey Klimes (via Twitter)
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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WatchWatch
dcycledesign: 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...
Dec 2nd
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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?
Dec 2nd
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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 Boing...
Dec 2nd
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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 ...
Dec 1st
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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...
Nov 28th
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