Www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/urban_world/pdfs/MGI_urban_world_exec_summary.pdf. Www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/urban_world/pdfs/MGI_urban_world_full_report.pdf. 2011-09-08 IBM Global Commuter Pain Survey: Traffic Congestion Down, Pain Way Up. ARMONK, N.Y., - 08 Sep 2011: • 8,042 commuters in 20 cities on six continents surveyed • Drivers report more stress and frustration related to commuting worldwide • Forty one percent of commuters globally said improved public transportation would help reduce stress • Perception of traffic in emerging economies vs. more developed economies is improving A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) survey of the daily commute in a cross-section of some of the most economically important international cities reveals a startling dichotomy: while the commute has become a lot more bearable over the past year, drivers’ complaints are going through the roof.
The annual global Commuter Pain Survey, which IBM released today, reveals that in a number of cities more people are taking public transportation rather than driving, when compared with last year’s survey. To better understand consumer attitudes around traffic congestion as the issue continues to grow around the world, IBM conducted the 2011 Commuter Pain survey. I.B.M. Study Quantifies the Pain of the Commuting Motorist. I.B.M.A speedometer graphic represents “the emotional and economic toll” of commuting in 20 international cities. Mexico City, with a score of 108, ranked as the most onerous. I.B.M. knows your pain. Not the pain of the frustrated desktop user or the stymied motherboard programmer, but of the commuting motorist.
And there is plenty of pain to go around in cities from New York to Nairobi, according to I.B.M.’s fourth annual Global Commuter Pain survey, which looks at the connection between traffic congestion and commuters’ emotional response to it in some of the world’s largest cities on six continents. The survey, which began in 2008 and surveyed only residents of cities in the United States, has been expanded worldwide.
This year’s survey is based on responses from 8,042 commuters in 20 cities. The index suggests a big disparity in the pain of the daily commute, with Mexico City, at a score of 108, outranking all other cities surveyed and Montreal, at 21, reporting the lowest level. House & Home - Liveable v lovable. Vancouver is Hollywood’s urban body double. It is famously the stand-in for New York, LA, Seattle and Chicago, employed when those cities just get too tough, too traffic-clogged, too murderous or too bureaucratic to film in.
It is almost never filmed as itself. That is because, lovely as it is, it is also, well ... a little dull. Who would want to watch a film set in Vancouver? To see its skyscrapers destroyed by aliens or tidal waves, its streets populated by cops and junkies, its public buildings hosting romantic reunions? Yet Vancouver (original name, Gastown) has also spent more than a decade at the very top of the charts of the best city to live in the world. No. The big cities it seems, the established megacities of the US, Europe and Asia are just too big, too dangerous, too inefficient. All the surveys use an index. So that’s the mountains, lakes and huge cups of generic coffee accounted for. Joel Garreau, the US urban academic and author, agrees. New York Rio de Janeiro Istanbul.
Environnement : Ces villes qui ne s'éteignent jamais. Global cities of the future: An interactive map - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Growth. Over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. Which of them will contribute the largest number of children or elderly to the world’s population? Which will rank among the top 25 cities by per capita GDP? How will regional patterns of growth differ? Explore these questions by browsing through this revised and updated interactive global map below, which contains city-specific highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s database of more than 2,600 metropolitan areas around the world. You’ll see why growth strategies focused at the country level may fall short in the future: with new hot spots emerging and household wealth surging in little-known urban centers, companies may have to adopt a much finer-grained approach to tap into the growth that lies ahead.
Interactive. The new growth frontier: Midsize cities in emerging markets - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing - Sectors & Regions. Senior executives searching for growth face a stark new reality: roughly 400 midsize cities in emerging markets—cities they mostly will have never heard of—are posed to generate nearly 40 percent of global growth over the next 15 years. That’s more growth than the combined total of all developed economies plus the emerging markets’ megacities (those with populations of more than ten million, such as Mumbai, São Paulo, and Shanghai), which together have been the historic focus of most multinationals.
Learning about consumer attitudes in the emerging markets’ “middleweight” cities (three-quarters of which have less than two million people), figuring out market entry strategies for them, and deciding how to allocate resources within and across them will all be crucial priorities in the years ahead. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) seeks to arm executives with the knowledge they’ll need to tap into global urban growth. Interactive About the authors. Urban economic clout moves east - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Productivity & Performance. Redes Sensoriales Inalámbricas - ZigBee - Mesh Networks. Smart Cities: sensor cities that interact with us in a smart way January 19th, 2011 - Alicia Asín The concept of city is changing as we knew it. The new technologies transform the cities into an entity capable of intelligently manage the water used to irrigate parks and gardens, measuring the amount of contamination in the air, or even generate alerts according to the level of dangerousness of the solar rays.
Optimizing the amount of water used in irrigation of parks and gardens, managing the lighting in a smart way, providing an information system of free parking spaces or water leaks in pipes are problems common to most cities: they all could be treated with an intelligent monitoring system that would help in the daily management of resources. The cities of the XXI century The main idea behind any monitoring system in a city is to optimize decisions through data collection, interaction with citizens and coordination between services with the aim of making cities better places to live.
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation. Comprendre les lois de la ville - Blogs InternetActu.net. Geoffrey West (Wikipédia) est physicien et travaille depuis quelques années sur le thème de la ville à l’Institut de Santa Fé, un Institut de recherche dédié à l’étude des systèmes complexes, rapporte le New York Timesdans un étonnant article sur ses recherches, signé Jonah Lehrer. L’objectif de West : découvrir les lois cachées qui régissent l’organisation urbaine. A l’heure où la majorité de la population mondiale vit en ville et où cette urbanisation ne cesse de s’accélérer, nous ne savons pas grand-chose du rôle des villes, rappelle le journaliste scientifique Jonah Lehrer.
Certes, les économistes ont bien mis l’accent sur le rôle des villes dans le produit intérieur brut ou l’amélioration du niveau de vie, tandis que les psychologues ont étudié l’impact de la vie urbaine sur la mémoire à court terme et sur notre capacité à l’auto-contrôle… Mais force est de reconnaître que la théorie urbaine ressemble à un domaine sans principes ni règles. Vers une théorie prédictive des villes ? What Matters: How big can cities get? Boosting a city.
KAEC - King Abdullah Economic City. Home. The global city: New York, London, Tokyo - Google Bücher. City Design. Future Cities. L’âge des nations est révolu, celui des cités commence. Temps de lecture: 18 min Le XXIe siècle ne sera pas dominé par l’Amérique ou par la Chine, par le Brésil ou par l’Inde; il le sera par la ville. A une époque où tout nous paraît de plus en plus incontrôlable, les villes – plus que les Etats – sont en train de se transformer en îlots de gouvernance, qui serviront de base à l’ordre mondial de demain. Ce nouveau monde n’est pas – et ne sera pas – tant un «village planétaire» qu’un réseau de différents villages. L’époque, les découvertes technologiques et l’accroissement de la population ont grandement accéléré l’avènement de cette nouvelle ère urbaine.
Plus de la moitié des habitants de la planète vivent dans des villes, et ce pourcentage augmente rapidement. Mais 30% de l’économie – ainsi que la quasi-totalité de l’innovation – mondiales ne sont concentrées que dans une centaine de villes. Nombre d’entre elles défieront les pays qui leur ont donné naissance. Regardez une image satellite nocturne de la terre. Parag Khanna.