by Blair A. Ruble | Sep 30, 2013 | Smart Cities
Cities are among humankind’s grandest and most complex creations. Even small urban communities represent the cumulative result of literally hundreds of thousands of public and private, individual and collective decisions over time. They are the playgrounds of...
by Brent Gilmour | Sep 24, 2013 | Smart Cities
QUEST hears the question all the time: what does a smart energy community actually look like? Thanks to communities across Canada which are increasingly implementing smart energy projects, in many ways it’s getting to be an easier question to answer. I can say, “just...
by Nicholas Freudenberg & Michele Silver | Sep 23, 2013 | Smart Cities
Diet related diseases, hunger, and high unemployment rates plague New York City, not to mention many other urban areas throughout the world. In the U.S. specifically, our food system is broken—damaging the environment, over-producing calorie dense but nutrient poor...
by Brooks Rainwater | Sep 20, 2013 | Smart Cities
Cities can thrive in the 21st century by building transformational places that incubate creativity and adapt to future challenges and opportunities. As political and economic power increasingly finds its greatest expression through municipal governments, cities have...
by Thomas D'Alesandro | Sep 11, 2013 | Smart Cities
The Research Triangle Region of North Carolina consistently sits at the top of “best place” lists – to live, grow a company or raise a family. Our reputation is an open secret, and the region is expected to add 40,000 new residents a year over the next twenty years....
by Frank Teng | Sep 11, 2013 | Economy, Society
As local governments struggle to meet their budgets, they have been forced to cut social programs often because of reduced federal support. This bears several questions: Where will cities get the money to get smarter? How can a smart city also be good for its people?...
by Lee Anne Nance | Sep 10, 2013 | Smart Cities
My organization, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership (RTRP), has been at the economic development game for more than two decades. RTRP leads economic development strategy for—and works with a wide range of partners to market—the region within a sixty-mile...
by Kent Gryskiewicz Scott Boutwell | Sep 9, 2013 | Smart Cities
We have found that two primary drivers are focusing development in this space: Rapidly decreasing costs in technology: smart meters and sensors are now available at low costs and also are much smaller; they can collect data in real time (or close to it) across cities,...
by Harry Verhaar | Sep 8, 2013 | Smart Cities
With Meeting of the Minds beginning tomorrow—and, in general, as the buzz around cities, energy and economic growth becomes louder—one sometimes wonders if we are speaking about the right things that we want to accomplish in our cities, and subsequently how to make...
by Marilyn Hamilton | Sep 6, 2013 | Smart Cities
In my Meeting of the Minds 2013 Delegate Interview I explained how I derived a new paradigm for the city that arose from both my practice and engagement with my own city of Abbotsford and from my study and application of the Integral Model. With my background in...
by Meghna Tare | Sep 5, 2013 | Smart Cities
Paul Hawken, in the book Ecology of Commerce, wrote: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor and you aren’t...
by Ben Hecht and Abhi Nemani | Sep 4, 2013 | Smart Cities
At their best, America’s cities are the engine for national prosperity and individual economic opportunity. Indeed, for generations, people from around the country and the world viewed our cities as gateways to a better life. That path has become harder to...
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