March 2012
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CityMaps →
CityMaps is an interactive going out map service– something like a crowdsourced cross between google maps and yelp.
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“The Smarter Cities Challenge is a competitive grant program awarding $50 million...”
– IBM Smarter Cities Challenge: Overview
(via horizonwatching)
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A new index ranks the competitiveness of global...
THE Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, has devised a new index which ranks the competitiveness of the most prominent cities across the globe using a number of economic, demographic and social variables. The 120 cities in the index are home to some 750m people and $20.2 trillion worth of GDP, 29% of the world’s total. High concentrations of skilled residents,...
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“A Food Forest is a gardening technique or land management system that mimics a...”
– Seattle creates a ‘food forest’ in the middle of the city. (Forbes. HuffPost)
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Trendexplosion: Get smart! →
trendexplosion:
Amsterdam wants to change its whole traffic system: subsidy for electric cars, free electricity and priority in traffic for bicycles.
The goal: Improve the air quality of Amsterdam by reducing the CO2 emission in 2025 by 40% compared to the 1990 level.
The way: Advertise it as…
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Chattanooga, Tenn., has the fastest Internet in America. As part of a bid to become a regional high-tech center, the Southern city built its own gigabit network — which means locals can have broadband that’s 200X faster than the national average. (The downside being it’ll set you back a cool $300 a month.) To capitalize on this investment, the city is tempting entrepreneurs and developers with...
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urban planning & smarter cities « A Smarter Planet... →
smarterplanet:
Check out all the original posts around Urban Planning — and the broader topic of Smarter Cities — from thought leaders across IBM and the world on the Smarter Planet blog.
