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![[Flipboard] Bionic City magazine, September 2013 | URBANmedias | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/q78tsVeOdHqHzpK6NCNrxzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
"Completely awesome magazine on biomimetics by Melissa Sterry" Mike McCue, Founder, Flipboard Via Sergey Yatsenko, Luciana Santos 
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For many years, architects and city planners from around the world have been trying to create the green ideal: an entire city built to strict environmental standards- highly functional while still retaining aesthetic value.
Here’s a look at some green building and community design that caught our attention in recent months and may (or may not) become reality in the next several years. Their physical footprints may be large, but by using features such as wind power, solar, rainwater recycling and advanced air quality controls, their carbon footprints don't have to be... Via Lauren Moss
Norm Miller's curator insight,
January 2, 2013 4:32 PM
This is going beyond Mazdar in Dubai. The reality is that we need to transform existing cities since starting from scratch is rare. We need to retrofit cities more than build new ones, but still it is interesting.
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How can we make our future cities less resource-hungry, more sustainable, and more resilient to the ever changing global conditions?
This is probably one of the most significant questions we face as the global population is expected to rise to 9.3 billion by 2050, with urban dwellers likely to make up two-thirds of that number.
Of course we want to lift people out of poverty, as the Millennium Development Goals state, but the desire to own and consume is often at odds with the carrying capacity of the planet and the local capacity to deal with the implications is often not present in local government.
We need our urban communities to become more resilient in the context of decreasing resources of all kinds. We need citizens to be empowered to develop their own sustainable solutions. We need new infrastructures that can encourage, enable and empower innovation at every level... Via Lauren Moss
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Bionic City's curator insight,
July 16, 2013 5:29 AM
DIY Cities: Post-Industrial Urban Futures, a keynote presentation given by Design Scientist and Futurist Melissa Sterry at 'Future Cities', held on July 10th 2013 at The Biospheric Project, Salford, as part of the official programme of the Manchester International Festival 2013. To read the accompanying speech notes click http://www.slideshare.net/societas/diy-cities-post
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Over 50% of the world's population now lives in cities, so the conditions are ripe for improving, adjusting and rethinking the urban landscape and city life. The web flourishes with digital platforms for community discussion, since now it’s city dwellers - rather than governing executives - that actively take part in city-related decision-making... Via Lauren Moss, F|Mattiuzzo
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