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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.
Press room - 2011-09-08 IBM Global Commuter Pain Survey: Traffic Congestion Down, Pain Way Up - United States
I.B.M. knows your pain. Not the pain of the frustrated desktop user or the stymied motherboard programmer, but of the commuting motorist.
I.B.M. Study Quantifies the Pain of the Commuting Motorist - NYTimes.com
Le Figaro - Environnement : Ces villes qui ne s'éteignent jamais
Environ un cinquième de l’électricité produite au niveau mondial sert à nous éclairer la nuit.
Global cities of the future: An interactive map - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Growth
Over the next 15 years, 600 cities will account for more than 60 percent of global GDP growth.
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.
More than 20 of the world’s top 50 cities ranked by GDP will be located in Asia by the year 2025, up from 8 in 2007.
Urban economic clout moves east - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Productivity & Performance
Redes Sensoriales Inalámbricas - ZigBee - Mesh Networks
A clean air supply is essential to our own health and that of the environment.
For West, the world is always most compelling at its most abstract.
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
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 Times dans un étonnant article sur ses recherches , signé Jonah Lehrer. L’objectif de West : découvrir les lois cachées qui régissent l’organisation urbaine.What Matters: How big can cities get?
What Matters : How big can cities get? The world is in the midst of a global mass urbanization that will change everything from how we govern to how we eat to how we care for the environment. What Matters has convened thinkers from around the world to look at the implications of Urban Man.Boosting a city
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