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Phillip Trotter
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October 22, 2013 12:42 PM
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Some 3.5 billion people — half of humanity — now live in cities. Cities magnify human endeavours: they account for much more than half of humanity's pollution, energy consumption, crime and disease spread, while also incubating the lion's share of innovations, technology, art and entertainment. A sustainable, equitable future on our crowded planet will require fundamental changes in how cities operate. In Smart Cities, Anthony Townsend examines how information technology is shaping the development of 'smart' cities. Information technology: Slouching towards utopia
Melanie E. Moses
Nature 502, 299–300 (17 October 2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/502299a Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Anthony M. Townsend W. W. Norton: 2013.
ISBN: 9780393082876 http://tinyurl.com/mzyxmjz
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September 23, 2013 3:40 AM
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BBC, Ford and Microsoft use its service and it is essential for drivers all across the world. So who exactly is INRIX?
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July 10, 2013 5:36 PM
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 446: Use of Advance Geospatial Data, Tools, Technologies, and Information in Department of Transportation Projects that explores the development, documentation, and introduction...
Its an enjoyable presentation reviewing the impact of congestion charges on stockholm traffic. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make traffic jams a thing of the past. Worth watching.
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September 27, 2012 3:52 AM
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Good article by Rick Robinson on IBM's work for Birmingham’s Smart City Commission and how they classified what a smart city was - and the role defintions at each level. While the diagram needs to be visually redone to show people at the center - its a useful indicator at this point. Click on the image or title to learn more.
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August 14, 2012 5:16 AM
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In what is rapidly becoming one of the most anticipated games releases in the simulation community - a little more info on the forthcoming SimCity release. IN this article and interview with Ocean Quigley of EA/Maxis quicly explains how the new SimCity simulation engine combines micro and macro simulation elements with each person, building and object will be simulated by the game's engine including individual sims that now have routines and lives and respond to the local events. Click on the image or title to learn more.
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July 8, 2012 4:08 PM
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A predictive data analytics team in the Mayor's Office of New York City has been quietly using data science to find patterns in regulatory data that can then be applied to law enforcement, public safety, public health and better allocation of resources. In a good interview Michael Flowers explains why applying data science to regulatory data is necessary to use city resources better. This is the other aspect of smart cities - better analytics and models informing policy and practise. Worth readig. Click on the image or headline to learn more
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July 4, 2012 3:26 PM
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SINGAPORE - The Housing and Development Board will soon be able to make better and more informed decisions on sustainable urban planning initiatives - such as which public housing blocks should have green roofs or solar panels. A Memorandum of Understanding to test-bed a new complex systems modeling tool was signed between the HDB, Electricite de France and VEOLIA Environement Recherche et Innovation yesterday at the World Cities Summit. The complex Systems Model simulates the built environment of a city and its impact on resource use, environment, people and costs. Click on the headline to learn more...
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July 1, 2012 9:36 AM
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Each year, crowd disasters happen in different areas of the world. How and why do such disasters happen? Are the fatalities caused by relentless behavior of people or a psychological state of panic that makes the crowd 'go mad'? Or are they a tragic consequence of a breakdown of coordination? These and other questions are addressed, based on a qualitative analysis of publicly available videos and materials, which document the planning and organization of the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, and the crowd disaster on July 24, 2010. Our analysis reveals a number of misunderstandings that have widely spread. Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster
Helbing D, Mukerji P
EPJ Data Science 2012, 1:7 (25 June 2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds7
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June 22, 2012 1:11 PM
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Showing that nothing is ever new, Mike Batty posts an example of an early flow map from 1906 and gives links to earlier examples by Charles Minard in the 19th century.
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June 20, 2012 5:00 AM
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http://youtu.be/OlIelAWikWQ New York City pizza delivery routes were tracked with GPS in this visualization from the "Food Machine" episode of the PBS series America Revealed.
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June 13, 2012 3:46 PM
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Great blog post by Greg Neichin on the smarter city movement. It is this stark contrast between the emerging, and deservedly warranted, enthusiasm for smart cities initiatives and the reality of the lives of many living in the squalor and sprawl of the world’s mega cities that demands attention. The world’s poor vastly outnumber the world’s rich and smarter cities will be cities that are not only smart and data-driven, but truly sustainable for all of their inhabitants, not just those with smart phones. Much like the sustainability movement encouraged corporations to not only think about their carbon footprint, but also about employee, supplier, and community welfare, so too, the smart cities movement should be based on organizing principles that are holistic in nature. As we as technologists continue to do our part to enhance the intelligence available to public officials and individual citizens, let us never forget that we are doing this out of a fundamental drive to raise the standard of living for all and to make tomorrow’s mega-cities sustainable, healthy, vibrant ecosystems.
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April 28, 2012 4:48 AM
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Call for Papers: Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations. People, crowds and rich urban environment, present a challenging simulation problem for AI and multi-agent systems, with numerous applications ranging from fun (games) to very serious (urban planning or security studies)...
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October 22, 2013 12:41 PM
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Moyan BrennPutting the “sit” back in “city.” Walkable cities are great. But once you get where you’re walking, you want to relax, right?
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July 20, 2013 2:01 AM
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July 10, 2013 5:31 PM
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A new online mapping tool wants to make better urban planning by comparing a standardized map experience.
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November 16, 2012 7:21 PM
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As we plan for the future of our planet, it is imperative that we consider the effects of development on both the environment and human populations. A city is only truly sustainable if it uses natural resources efficiently while still fully meeting the needs of its inhabitants and a decent standard of living. Recently, the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) launched its “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013” which addresses the prosperity of cities. According to the report, the first step to achieving prosperity is to define the goal: What does prosperity mean in 2012? This is a difficult question to answer given the vast disparity of living conditions throughout the world. Additionally, it is imperative that the definition of prosperity today consider the needs of future generations. To this end, UN-Habitat developed a “City Prosperity Index,” which translates the five dimensions of prosperity identified by UN-Habitiat—productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, environmental sustainability—into measurable indicators (see page 15 of the report). This definition of the prosperous city is consistent with the principles of a smart, sustainable and just city... further reading at the article link
Via Lauren Moss
Esri announced this week the availability of CityEngine Web Viewer in ArcGIS Online this week, allowing anyone with a WebGL-enabled browser to navigate and explore uploaded 3D cities and environments created in CityEngine 2012.
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August 5, 2012 6:03 AM
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The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd (DMICDC) is scouting for land to establish the proposed seven ‘smart cities’ alongside the 1,500-km industrial corridor planned across six states – Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The seven smart cities, to be developed as world-class manufacturing hubs, are to have individual master plans. Each of these would require different sizes of land, for which DMICDC, a special purpose vehicle comprising government and private entities, is in talks with the state governments to acquire land in the six states
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July 5, 2012 7:03 AM
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Telvent GIT, S.A., an IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today that it is working together with the Chinese cities of Nanning, Fushun and Erdos to transform the way these major cities are managed at present. The company will implement its SmartMobility technology aimed at intelligent urban and mobility management to enable local authorities to make the most of their road infrastructures. These cities are expected to lower the current number of traffic delays by over 35% and the inner-city commute rate is anticipated to drop by around 15%. Click headline to learn more
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July 4, 2012 10:13 AM
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Interesting article on social-ethographic research and social cognition. Key quote "it is important to pay attention to what people articulate as their own understanding of how social processes work and how they as individuals might negotiate the complex social terrain, rather than simply looking at their actions…." Worth a read
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June 29, 2012 5:50 PM
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Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities.
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June 22, 2012 1:01 PM
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Games and games technology often inspire and sometimes lead the simulation industry. Over the years Sim City has been instrumental in many people learning about simulations, urban planning and land use in and outside of a class room. The next generation of Sim City is likely to do that and set expectations on what City Simulations should look like. :-) Great article at Gamasutra on the design and aesthetic of the new version and how it relates to the underpinning simulation. Learn more...
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June 15, 2012 8:21 AM
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Cities are systems of systems, with things interacting in interesting ways. How do we work with them to make things better. Smart cities aren't about growth - they're about prosperity. They're about making insightful decisions, predicting problems, and co-ordinating resources to operate effectively. Peterborough is one of the UK"s leading cities for sustainability. They're gathering huge amounts of data, but very little of its is being sued by business or public sector decision makers. So they're trying to produce it in new forms. They create visualisations to make the information more accessible. For exampe - a visualisation of water meter use. Learn more..
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April 29, 2012 6:31 PM
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For me, Mike Batty is one of the defining thought leaders on the science of cities. He is Professor of Planning at University College London where he run's one of the UK's most important research centers for spatial systems - the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). This his blog and its a delight and information rich.. Read more...
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