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China’s Urbanites Take to the Internet in Droves [Infographic]

May 3, 2012 by Adam Mayer
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The good people over at Statista provided us with yet another excellent China infographic, this time about the country’s huge online population. Already, 1 in 5 worldwide internet users is Chinese, yet still less than half of the country’s population is online. Most of those are people living in China’s urban areas, accounting for 73.5%... [read more]

What lies ahead for 'driverless' cars?

May 3, 2012 by Christoper Miles
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Yes, you read it here first, driving can save fuel. Well, not just any sort of driving- Road trains, autonomous vehicles, and all manner of driver assist options will soon make commutes somewhat more efficient, and certainly less exhausting. [read more]

Five Apps for a Healthy and Sustainable Urban Lifestyle

April 20, 2012 by This Big City
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Our health is closely linked to the wellbeing of the natural resources we draw on day-to-day: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat… It’s no big surprise, then, that lifestyle choices that are good for the environment are often good for our health, too. Commuting by bike or on foot will cut carbon, local air pollution... [read more]

Traffic explained, then fixed in 4 entertaining minutes

April 18, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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  This great little video, produced by ITDP Mexico, simplifies and explains induced travel demaind about as well as I've ever seen.  Fast moving and fun.  Props to Streetsblog for tweeting it:  Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment.  For more posts, see his... [read more]

Smaller Cities: Setting the Pace for the Next Wave of Innovation and Growth

April 16, 2012 by Adam Christensen
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It’s said that technology is “making the world smaller,” and while that may be true, the world’s cities are growing at an astonishing rate.By the year 2050, nearly 75% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas, and trends show that staggering population growth will impact cities on a global scale. The most significant of this... [read more]

5 videos that could change the way you see cities

April 12, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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I find the emergence of the short, highly accessible video - on sites such as YouTube and Vimeo - to be one of the great developments in communications and social media over the last decade. Here are some of my favorites. [read more]

Four Ways to Reduce Light Pollution in Cities

April 12, 2012 by This Big City
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When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? If you’re reading this post from a city, chances are you don’t see very much. Whereas more than half of the UK enjoyed truly dark sky in the 1950s, only 10% do today. And it’s a similar situation across the urbanised world. The culprit? Light pollution from poorly designed and excessive... [read more]

New Data Visualisation Tool Encourages Sustainable Buildings in Sydney

April 6, 2012 by This Big City
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Australia, like pretty much every other country, is facing some pressing sustainability issues. Check out how they're using new technologies to make their buildings greener! [read more]

Reassembling the City

April 2, 2012 by polis blog
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Topographic map from "Old Moscow Inventory 2011." A group of students from the Moscow Architectural Institute recently completed an "inventory" of the Russian capital using public data and Google Earth. They focused primarily on the territory beyond the historic center, explaining that it makes up 90.4 percent of Moscow's area and... [read more]

Leverage the Golden Gate Transportation Monopoly

March 26, 2012 by David Edmondson
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photo by d4yw41k3rYou may not realize it, but the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transit District has an effective monopoly* on travel to San Francisco from Marin.  If you take transit, of course, you’re using GGT, but if even if you drive you have a toll to pay.  This gives the district enormous market power to influence the... [read more]

How Walkable Streets can Reduce Crime

March 26, 2012 by This Big City
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Every city has at least a few streets where you won’t feel completely safe from crime. This might be due to several factors, such as the time of day, who you’re with or the reputation of the area. Research has shown that ‘fear of crime’ affects urban walkability, but now a new project has shown that the reverse may also be true... [read more]

Open Data: What are the benefits for cities?

March 12, 2012 by Rashiq Fataar
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When you think of Open Data, you might imagine hackers secretly scratching around on computer systems, finding government data to release to the world. Certainly many advocates of open data are civic activists concerned about government accountability, but most gather data that is publicly available.They tend to focus on things like how... [read more]