Five Sustainability Tools for the Built Environment

Posted at 10 January 2011 in Cities

The Big City Blog presents five tools for the assessment of the sustainable building developments. These tools enable us to take into account a number of other factors beyond the economic gain, such as social, environmental and economic needs, in order to arrive at a truly sustainable built environment.

ABC’s of 21st Century Cities

Posted at 9 January 2011 in Digital Cities / Cyber Cities

“Cities will be smart. They will be more beautiful, more exquisitely made in parts and more assembled ad hoc in other parts. More resourceful and more transparently knowable. Unlike today’s “dumb cities” that sit like the dead materials that they are, future cities will be alive in a Biomimicry sense, evolving, learning, and growing.”

Smart Cities and the Future Internet

Posted at 7 January 2011 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

A presentation by Hans Schaffers (FIREBALL project) at the Future Internet Conference Week, Session on Smart Cities, Ghent, 16 December 2010.
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Video: What Makes an Intelligent City

Posted at 7 January 2011 in Videos on Intelligent Cities

“Intelligent city is a city focused on innovation; a city of global competitiveness”. View the Video from TIME VIDEO

Great City Challenges

Posted at 7 January 2011 in Cities

Joe Leahy and James Fontanella-Khan produced three short videos showing the strong migration from villages to urban centres in India and the great city challenges for homes and employment in Mumbai.