by Jeffrey Szuchman | Apr 30, 2013 | Smart Cities
Over the next decades, most of the world’s urban growth will take place in developing countries. By 2035 cities will house 2 billion poor people, many of whom will live in slums with little or no access to basic services such as sanitation, water, or health services....
by Paolo Gaudiano | Apr 29, 2013 | Smart Cities
It is estimated that buildings contribute 20-30% of energy use in the United States at an annual cost of over $100B. Buildings also contribute an estimated 35-40% of all US CO2 emissions resulting from building energy consumption. Any effort to decrease building...
by Stewart Chisholm | Apr 29, 2013 | Smart Cities
The world is undergoing a rapid and unprecedented process of urbanization. Today, about 85 percent of us live in cities, a jump of nearly 50 percent in a mere 30 years. As urban populations grow, greater pressures are placed on natural green spaces both within...
by Frank Teng | Apr 25, 2013 | Infrastructure, Mobility
Sometimes smart cities have simple solutions at their disposal – if they just view their data slightly differently. Walk Score recently released their updated rankings of bikeable, walkable, and transit-oriented cities: 10 most bikeable large U.S. & Canadian...
by Dave Hahn | Apr 24, 2013 | Announcements
Happy Hour Meet-ups, a set on Flickr.A casual happy hour meet-up for anyone interested in urban sustainability, connected technology and related fields. April 23rd, 2013 in at Against the Grain Urban Tavern, Toronto,...
by Lauren Sinreich | Apr 24, 2013 | Smart Cities
Innovation. Strategic risk. Efficiency. Opportunity. These aren’t typically words associated with government offices. They’re words used in the technology and start-up worlds. Yet, the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation just released A Start-up Called...
by Paul Clifford | Apr 23, 2013 | Smart Cities
Talking to Chinese economists and leaders of state-owned and private Chinese firms since the recent change in the Chinese leadership, I have been struck by an almost complete consensus that despite continued growth over recent years, it has been a “lost 10 years” in...
by Sina Blassnig | Apr 22, 2013 | Smart Cities
Busses, trams, pedestrians, and cars zoom about modern cities. But with urban growth comes challenges—one of them is how to improve transportation. The Urban Data Challenge competition invited participants to explore mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco,...
by Ron Dembo | Apr 19, 2013 | Announcements
Youth wanted Today’s youth are taking the future into their own hands in over 100 countries through the Zerofootprint Youth Calculator initiative that engages them in a worldwide network to measure, compare and change their behavior. As both a carbon calculator and...
by Seth Rosenberg | Apr 18, 2013 | Smart Cities
Experts agree that smart cities of the future will run on clean and renewable energy, and the stabilization of our climate depends on it. The question of ‘why?’ is increasingly being replaced by ‘how?’ Although we have a long way to go, the planning (and...
by Hugh Aldridge | Apr 17, 2013 | Smart Cities
Academics are often characterized as pedants, focusing on trivial details and missing the big picture. As with most stereotypes there is an element of truth in this caricature – academics seek precision and with that precision, truth. The first thing some academics...
by Steve Raney | Apr 15, 2013 | Smart Cities
Elite portions of the Bay Area (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Pleasanton, and Marin County) adopt many leading-edge green policies but stumble when it comes to accommodating regional population growth. These areas fear the impacts of growth within their own boundaries and...
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