by Jamie Bennett | Oct 12, 2016 | Society
In a few short weeks, ArtPlace America will announce $10.5 million in new investments in more than 25 projects across the United States that address public safety, housing, agriculture and food systems, environment and energy, and many other critical issues facing our...
by Betsy McCaw | Oct 11, 2016 | Governance, Smart Cities, Technology
Indianapolis has a great story to tell. It’s one of those stories that never ends – a city always working together toward a bold vision and finding ways to succeed just as the next chapter is being conceived. It finds itself today on the precipice of a new wave of...
by Nicole Rupersburg | Oct 11, 2016 | Urban Innovator of the Week
Alfa Demmellash, CEO and co-founder of New Jersey-based Rising Tide Capital, was born and raised in Ethiopia. Her mother fled the country as a refugee when Demmellash was just two years old after losing two of her siblings in the ongoing civil war. Her grandparents...
by Henry Izumizaki | Oct 10, 2016 | Environment, Resources, Smart Cities
1,000 Square Miles of Shared Future In 1873, just eight years after its founding, the city of Tacoma was chosen as the terminus for Northern Pacific Railroad’s transcontinental route. Upon winning this coveted prize, the leaders of the day dubbed Tacoma the...
by Robert Ouellette | Oct 6, 2016 | Mobility, Smart Cities, Society, Technology
Smart, mobile technologies are behind a wave of change that will wash over our cities with the metaphorical force of a Pacific tsunami. When it hits it will first disrupt then reinvent how we design our streets and use our public spaces. It will even change urban...
by John Addison | Oct 5, 2016 | Environment, Governance, Resources
The European Parliament approved ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement, taking us well past the threshold of nations and collective emissions needed. The agreement is not legally binding for 30 days. We are on a path to breathing cleaner air; our children are...
by Sascha Simon and Dan Winston | Oct 5, 2016 | Mobility, Technology
Distracted driving killed more than 3,000 people in the U.S. in 2013. Every year, more than one million people die from auto-related incidents around the world. We’ve all heard the statistics, and they are frightening. In an era where vehicles are rapidly becoming...
by Gordon Feller | Oct 4, 2016 | Economy, Governance, Infrastructure
Review of “The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life”, by Jonathan F. P. Rose Roadmaps are sometimes hard to read. But you can be sure that they’re always much harder to create. I kept...
by Greg Delaune | Oct 3, 2016 | Announcements
UIX Global is pleased to support Meeting of the Minds 2016 in our shared goals of helping to make cities smarter, greener, and more resilient. In conjunction with MOTM 2016, UIX Global will be hosting our Prototyping the Future 2016 Conference, Expo and Job Fair on...
by Gordon Feller | Oct 1, 2016 | Smart Cities
By 2050 nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. The global challenges of natural resource and infrastructure management are immense: global temperatures are rising, water shortages are more frequent, and energy systems are overburdened. The...
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