McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) produced a two years study on the urbanization of China, examining the global economic and social implications of the unprecedented expansion of China’s cities and how national and local policy makers can shape China’s urban development to 2025 Continue reading
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The masterplans are finished already. The seven brand new cities across the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) will revolutionize the country`s Continue reading
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
Smart phones have miraculously enabled people to stay connected, informed, and entertained, even in transit. We can now text, tweet, Skype, check Facebook updates, email in-boxes, Pandora channels and news feeds from a Continue reading
The Summit that will take place in Paris 14-16 May 2012 is organized by the New Cities Foundation aims at placing the city at the heart of the global discussion. According to the organizers this by invitation-only event is new in both content and form. Continue reading
Smart growth is the trend of the future. All cities, from top-ranked Vienna, Austria to the developing metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria have embarked on ambitious smart city programmes aiming towards goals such as higher densities, compact mixed-uses and transit orientation. But even though smart growth has a number of very important and widely beneficial advantages, is it what modern city-dwellers really want? Continue reading
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, has devised a new index which ranks the competitiveness of the most prominent cities across the globe according to their demonstrated ability to attract capital, businesses, talent and visitors. Continue reading