Funding Smart City Projects has been recently set at the centre of the interest of many urban analysts. IBM’ s executive Rick Robinson, in his two sequential posts, lists ten ways to pay for Smart City initiatives. Continue reading
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The Smart+Connected Communities Institute has published the e-book Smart Cities Exposé: 10 Cities in Transition 2012. Via a series of conversations with key experts, the book highlights the efforts of ten cities with different profiles which try to reinvent themselves through the use of ICT. Continue reading
Creating Places for People is a collaborative commitment to best practice urban design in Australia. The protocol, which was a result of two years of collaboration between stakeholders and communities in Australia, provides some broad principles for urban design that take into account the unique characteristics of a location, Continue reading
The post revisits concepts such as smart or intelligent cities, resilient cities and liveable cities and juxtaposes two models of urbanism: ‘Petropolis’ and ‘Ecopolis’.
Schneider Electric and its recently acquired Telvent have collaborated to develop and introduce an integrated suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban infrastructures, leading to more livable cities. Continue reading
The passport blog of BBC has collected a number of must-have apps for looking like a local when visiting another country. A number of iPhone and Android apps Continue reading
The Guardian in assosiation with IBM published a series of articles concerning the ‘˜smart’ urban environment of the future. The articles examine characteristics of our daily life in a future smart city, initiatives taken by urban centers, and views of representatives from a list of European cities. Continue reading