by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Aug 31, 2017 | Infrastructure
This article was adapted from work to create a forthcoming issue brief from the UN ARISE initiative with Ms. Yoshiko Abe, Sustainability Strategist at Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Japan), with input from Dr. William Hynes, founder of Future Analytics Consulting, and...
by Kelsey Jessup | Aug 29, 2017 | Infrastructure, Resources, Urban Parks
Like many Angelenos, you may only be familiar with the Los Angeles River thanks to movies like Grease, in which Danny beats his nemesis in a car chase along the concrete riverbed. But the Los Angeles River is now center stage in discussions of open space and...
by Bas Boorsma | Aug 28, 2017 | Economy, Infrastructure
Communities around the world are accelerating their response to the current wave of digital innovations and they have good reason to. Digitalization can be considered a critical ingredient in the recipe of our sustainable communities of today and tomorrow – in the...
by Anna Murray | Aug 24, 2017 | Economy
Green buildings support the goals of sustainable communities and vice versa. When office, apartment and retail properties are built and managed sustainably, the surrounding neighborhood benefits. Likewise, a community that enables a sustainable, live-work-play...
by Erica Rippe and Johanna Roth | Aug 23, 2017 | Climate Resiliency, Infrastructure
The Earth is warming, and by extension so are our cities. Managing the effects of climate change requires us to think creatively about our existing resources, like underutilized or contaminated land, and how those resources can contribute to a cooler, greener...
by Albert Shen | Aug 22, 2017 | Governance, Society
The recent explosion of technology integration with the transportation industry has rapidly disrupted traditional transportation legacy planning methodologies. The number of options and the traveler information available to the everyday citizen has created a new...
by Joseph Barr | Aug 17, 2017 | CommonWealth Series, Infrastructure, Mobility
That headline might sound like the cry of an engineer who is being forced to speak at a public meeting, but it’s really about how we get vehicles, sensors, and other devices to communicate with each other and eventually, to communicate with people. As the leader...
by Sandra Phillips | Aug 16, 2017 | Mobility
The current hype about autonomous vehicle is accompanied by a surge of interest from shared mobility operators. Ridesharing providers such as Uber, Lyft and Didi are investing heavily into AV technology. Earlier this year, Uber announced its partnership with Daimler...
by Ysni Semsedini | Aug 14, 2017 | Infrastructure, Technology
Our journey into telecommunications began in 2009 as an initiative to provide a backhaul for Festival Hydro’s smart metering system. That project led us down a path to offering wireless and fibre optic connections. It became clear early on in the project that the...
by Gary Reiter | Aug 9, 2017 | Resources, Society
As historian Mark I. Gelfand has noted: “No federal venture spent more funds in urban areas and returned fewer dividends to central cities than the national highway program.” A micro example of the devastating effect of the highway system developed through...
by Carlos Menendez | Aug 8, 2017 | Society, Technology
When thinking about the cities of the future, I know that they will be more connected, and I strongly believe that they must be more inclusive. We can’t have the Internet of Everything without the Inclusion of Everyone. Already today, a growing number of cities are...
by Cooper Martin | Aug 7, 2017 | Climate Resiliency, Governance, Society
In recent months, people have taken to the streets of Washington, D.C. for marches urging the Trump administration and Congress to act on climate change. The People’s Climate March was exclusively targeted at producing action on the issues of climate change, and the...
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