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Forget The Gym. A City Must Be A Playground For Health.
When Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, arguably the “father of gymnastics” and the inventor of the horizontal and parallel bars,…
2017-01-30
Kids Will Outsmart Us With Design Thinking For Urban Planning
In some schools, “design thinking” has become a buzzword emphasizing critical thinking and problem solving. At a recent…
2017-01-06
Smart Cities Is Not Enough, It Needs To Be Smarter Or Else
As a planet, we have some serious climate targets to meet in the coming years. The Paris Agreement,…
2016-12-16
Stop Detaching A City’s Life & Fate With The Planet’s
Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope.…
2016-06-15
Getting Lost (Safely) Is Part Of The Fun & Smarts Of ‘Smart’ Cities
The internet has reached our cities. A smart city is optimised for efficiency, productivity and comfort. The smart…
2016-05-16
Raising The Bar For Smart Cities In Singapore
Government-deployed sensors will collect and coordinate an unprecedented amount of data on daily life in the city. This…
2016-04-27
The Anti-Patterns Of The Digitally Connected City
Popular visions of the “smart city” promise that with digital technology the power of the city “as a…
2016-02-17
The Top 10 Smart Cities Consideration For A Prosperous India
The government last month revealed names of the first 20 smart cities that will get Rs 50,802 crore…
2016-02-16
Start Asking People What They Want From The Smart Cities Of The Future
“Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer an enticing prospect.” But who is in the driving…
2016-01-04
Discover 10 Cool Items For Your Smarter & Greener Home
Looking to spruce up your home? New options, showcased at this year’s Greenbuild trade show, could make it…
2015-12-10
Chicago’s History With Smart Sewage Management To Power Future
Chicago’s wastewater authority plans to slash its energy bill by using bacteria to convert sewage into natural gas.…
2015-11-20
Why Smart Cities, As It Is Portrayed, Is Not Always Really Smart
Digital tracking systems – The smart city ‘is a promise to improve quality of life, even in Dutch…
2015-10-20
A 21st Century Smart Metrics Guide For Smart Cities
Smart cities make sense: they waste less, offer better quality of life and ensure a brighter future for…
2015-10-09
How Climate-Smart Cities Could Save The World
Green buildings and better infrastructure would not only spur economic growth but also cut carbon emissions equal to…
2015-09-24
Saving China’s Shopping Centres, One Smart Mall At A Time
In the past year, nearly half of the world’s new shopping malls were built in China – yet…
2015-09-23
Think Cities Make You Smart? Think Again. If You Can.
Metropolitan cities continue to swell across the U.S. as millions flock to densely populated regions seeking employment and…
2015-09-15
How Spokane Started A “Smart Bus System”
The new tracking system will give riders a sense of security for where the bus is at all…
2015-09-14
How Christchurch Returned The City To Its Cycling Roots
After the 2011 disaster, residents were asked what they wanted from the city once known as ‘Cyclopolis’. They…
2015-09-01
Playable Cities : The City That Plays Together, Stays Together
Forget about smart cities, Playable City ideas – like Bristol’s water slide or its temporary play streets –…
2015-07-23
How Can A City Measure Its Happiness?
At one time, questionnaires about well-being were the province of mental health professionals. But in recent years, a…
2015-07-21
What Is The City That Never Sleeps? All Of Them!
One’s experience of a city at night is always singular and intimate, especially when visiting for the first…
2015-07-20
Without Smart, Connected People There Are No Smart Cities
Driverless cars, smart homes, streetcars and high-speed rail, skyscrapers clad in solar panels – there are a lot…
2015-07-20
Why Smart Cities Have Always Been About People
In Charlotte, N.C., providing people with data is leading to real transformation. The city of Charlotte, N.C., has,…
2015-07-18
How ‘Internet Of Energy Things’ Help Improve The Smart Cities
Smart buildings are highly beneficial, and will become more so once all things that consume energy report their…
2015-07-13
DIY Guide : How To Build A City From Scratch
From Songdo, South Korea to Lavasa, India via Egypt’s unnamed new capital, everywhere you look it seems someone’s…
2015-07-03
Smart Alerting : Shelter From The Data Storm
Here’s a fundamental paradox of today’s massively connected IT systems: the more information available to you, the less…
2015-06-17
How Big Data May Help Sustain A Sustainable City
Global IT firm Hitachi Consulting has been chosen to build a first-of-its-kind Big Data platform for Denmark’s capital…
2015-06-17
City Public Toilets : The True Measure Of Hygiene
Reacting to the poor offering of public amenities across major cities, apps like Airpnp – which allows users…
2015-06-16
Can Visionary Design Renew City Living
By the middle of this century, our cities are likely to be hotter, experience more dramatic changes in…
2015-06-04
How To Create A City That Already Exists
In Europe 80% of the population lives in cities. The analysis of the economic, social, environmental and technological…
2015-05-29
Would You Share Private Data For A Better City?
In the 1950s, a decade after he outlined the theory of the Big Bang and the expanding…
2015-05-29
Why Our Cities Need Smart Transport
The reform of urban mobility remains one of the biggest challenges confronting policy makers around the world. According…
2015-05-29
Montreal City Council Wants A Better 311 System
Montreal’s 311 system receives, on average, around 1 million calls each year. About 65 per cent of those…
2015-05-28
What’s The Best Way To Plan A City?
A lot of municipalities want to plan for more sustainable urban growth and are applying fairly rigid urban…
2015-05-19
San Diego : Smart Projects For Smart Cities
A National Geographic series on smart cities will showcase San Diego in an hour-long documentary scheduled to start…
2015-04-30
Jeff Speck : The Walkable City
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free…
2015-04-21
LA’s pLAn : From Smog & Sprawl To A Green Sustainable City
Los Angeles is known around the world as the home of Hollywood stars, sunny beaches and a high…
2015-04-18
Smart AND Beautiful, Vienna
Vienna, the capital and largest city in Austria. Often ranked as the most livable city in the world.…
2015-04-13
Where Is The World’s Greenest City?
Bristol is the ‘green capital’ of Europe, but its predecessor Copenhagen comes top in a Europe-wide index. Curitiba,…
2015-04-13
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
2015-04-11
Ben Wellington : How We Found The Worst Place To Park In New York City – Using Big Data
City agencies have access to a wealth of data and statistics reflecting every part of urban life. But…
2015-03-18
Smarter Kids From Smarter Cities Start With Diverse Neighbourhoods
Babies who hear a variety of different languages outside their home may be more willing to learn from…
2015-03-16
Singapore Plans To Become The World’s First Smart Nation
Smart cities—filled with sensors and connected tech to help solve everything from traffic jams to pollution—have been slow…
2015-03-05
The Smartest Cities Rely On Citizen Cunning And Unglamorous Technology
Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing…
2015-03-02
Smart Or Stupid: Will Our Cities Of The Future Be Easier To Hack?
As more and more machines are entrusted with managing city infrastructure systems, the prospect of disruption – and…
2015-02-28
Germany’s Designer City
On the brick wall of a building beside the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, a small brass plaque…
2015-02-28
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
2015-02-24
Biometric Data And Smart Cities
Using information to track individuals’ behaviour and interactions in cities could be used to redesign systems from healthcare…
2015-02-23
6 Principles In Planning City-Level Sensor Projects
In Montreal, bus and subway riders who use the transit system’s OPUS smart fare card and have a…
2015-02-18
6 Major Design Trends Shaping City Life In 2015
Cities are the future. By one oft-cited statistic, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas…
2015-02-11