by Nicole Rupersburg | Jul 26, 2016 | Economy, Society, Urban Innovator of the Week
Eric Avner has managed the community development programs for the Cincinnati-based Haile Foundation since 2008. During that time, he says, the Haile Foundation did “the normal foundation things” – funding philanthropic programs, as foundations do. But then...
by Brooks Rainwater and Trevor Langan | Jul 26, 2016 | Environment, Governance, Technology
Cities are the places where we live and interact. We expect our city leaders to keep them healthy, safe and vibrant. Mayors fill the potholes, provide needed services to people and grow the economy. Even more, the nation’s mayors are leading the charge to develop...
by John Addison | Jul 25, 2016 | Environment, Resources, Technology
California will soon be coal-free and its last nuclear plant will be replaced with renewables. It is true that grid imported coal and nuclear power make up a small and declining part of total system power, but the percentage keeps falling with improved demand...
by Jim Pugh and Sandhya Anantharaman | Jul 25, 2016 | Economy, Society, Technology
These days, advances in technology are allowing us to do new and amazing things. But these advances can come with a cost: as technology is used for more and more purposes, it can disrupt the traditional labor model and put people out of work by automating their jobs....
by Mary Allen | Jul 20, 2016 | Technology
A new community-based initiative is building best practice positions on IoT deployment in urban environments. Animated by the notion that “All of us are smarter than any one of us,” a new research initiative is drawing on the wisdom of the crowd to explore IoT and its...
by Nicole Rupersburg | Jul 19, 2016 | Society, Urban Innovator of the Week
This profile was originally published by Urban Innovation Exchange in partnership with Meeting of the Minds and Kresge Foundation. For more stories of people changing cities, visit UIXCities.com and follow @UIXCities. When Carlo “Khali” Sweeney first...
by Moiz Kapadia | Jul 19, 2016 | Governance, Infrastructure, Technology
Washington, D.C. has an ambitious goal to become the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States by 2032. The District laid out a wide range of sustainability goals, which includes net-zero energy buildings, green infrastructure, and connected...
by Christina Olsen | Jul 18, 2016 | Global Mobility Research, Governance, Infrastructure, Mobility
This interview series is made possible by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. Each month we feature a leading thinker from VREF’s Future Urban Transport program. Meeting of the Minds talked with Xumei Chen about sustainable urban transport in China....
by Blair A. Ruble | Jul 18, 2016 | Governance, Society, Technology
Dozens of the world’s leading specialists and practitioners making cities around the world “smarter” gathered recently in Singapore to discuss how information technology can assist cities manage energy, water, security, and transportation challenges. The World Smart...
by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Jul 13, 2016 | Smart Cities
With all the interest around the world in smart cities, I had naively supposed that there was a ready definition of what a smart city actually is, that I could at least use, for example, to differentiate one from a “normal”, or even “stupid”, city. Certainly, as...
by Colin Harrison | Jul 12, 2016 | Smart Cities
How would you feel if your Autonomous Vehicle decided it was best for you to die? The June 23, 2016 edition of Science magazine, a prestigious journal of general science including in recent years the science of cities, carries an article entitled “The social...
by John Addison | Jul 11, 2016 | Smart Cities
Our future is full of good NEWS: net zero, electric mobility, wind power,and solar energy. Net Zero Net-zero-energy buildings, campuses, and cities are the future. They are so efficient than in a year they generate as much renewable energy as their total energy...
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