by Robert Haynie & Bryna Lipper | May 28, 2013 | Smart Cities
Rapid urbanization is a global phenomenon. The number of people predicted to live in cities is anticipated to grow by more than 2.5 billion over the next 40 years. Though cities have been a source of jobs, wealth, and economic opportunity generating 70% of GDP...
by Nicholas You | May 27, 2013 | Smart Cities
In late 2012 I had the honour to serve as co-Chair of the Technical Committee that reviewed some 250 initiatives that had been submitted for the first Guangzhou Award for Urban Innovation and, subsequently, to represent the Technical Committee on the Jury. This two...
by Frank Teng | May 26, 2013 | Governance, Technology
Cities are aware of less than 10% of the solutions available to them, yet almost 90% of cities do not trust information from providers, according to Citymart.com. So how to solve this mismatch? The Living Labs Global Award (LLGA) held their Cities Summit in San...
by Sarah Slaughter | May 22, 2013 | Smart Cities
While some people take it as a given that “April showers bring May flowers,” the weather this year didn’t deliver on that promise across the U.S. The fire season has started early in the Los Angeles, CA area, where the snow pack is 17% of its normal depth. Texas is...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | May 20, 2013 | Announcements
We are working hard to organize a rich line-up of sessions and speakers at Meeting of the Minds 2013 in Toronto this September. More importantly, we are building-in a lot of discussion and networking time for you to exchange ideas one-on-one with each other. Not all...
by Dave Hahn | May 17, 2013 | Smart Cities
An excellent infographic from HouseTrip.com. Thanks to Liam Fisher for the tip.
by Lyle Wray | May 16, 2013 | Smart Cities
We seem to be getting 100 year weather events every six months in New England over the past several years. The good news is that we are getting better at planning for and responding to disasters. Two things have come out of the last two or three disasters that should...
by Daniel Obodovski | May 15, 2013 | Smart Cities
I was recently asked, “What makes you excited about the Internet of Things?” Some analysts predict that the IOT will grow to 50 billion devices by 2020. In GE’s recent study, Industrial Internet, it forecasts that the Internet of Things will generate trillions of...
by Alex Herceg | May 14, 2013 | Smart Cities
The evolution of commercial buildings over the past 100 years may be compared in scale to that of the airplane. Air-conditioning was first devised for industrial applications in New York in 1902. Over the next 30 years, cooling technology trickled into home and office...
by Lynn Patterson | May 13, 2013 | Smart Cities
I’m lucky enough to hold the budget (and the pen) on the only national poll of Canadians about their attitudes towards water, so I take advantage of this annual opportunity to ask some oddball questions of my own that have taken root in the back of my head. So in the...
by Seth Rosenberg | May 9, 2013 | Smart Cities
The GeSI SMARTer 2020 Report examines the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled solutions in the power, transportation, agriculture and land use, buildings, manufacturing, and consumer and service sectors to fight climate change. The...
by Dave Hahn | May 7, 2013 | Announcements
Citytowninfo.com, along with QuinStreet, Inc., have created an excellent infographic on sustainable cities. Thanks to Eric Lipsky for sharing this graphic with us.
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