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Cities of Opportunity: Detailed study of the world’s leading financial and commercial centers
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City Thinking: Cognitive Cities Conference | Dentsu London
'The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one.
Visualizing Childrens' Plans For The City Of The Future In Pop-Up Book Form | Fast Company
Out of the mouths of babes, the saying goes. Taking this quite literally, the Spanish design firm Play Studios gathered a bunch of children together and asked them for their visions of the cities of the future. Adult designers took these ideas and rendered them into pop-up book form.
City Life Could Change Your Brain for the Worse | Wired Science
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-71759" title="nycabove" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/06/nycabove.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="408" /> Between the crowds and the noise and the pressure, city life often seems to set one’s brain on edge. Turns out that could literally be true.
Social Media Savvy Cities: The 13 Most 'Social' Cities Ranked By NetProspex
NetProspex , a sales and marketing database company, has released its annual "Social Business Report," which analyzes the social media activity and connectedness of cities, industries, and businesses. Among other findings, NetProspex ranks the top 50 "most social cities" in the United States--the cities with the "most social businesspeople"--based on a metric system called "NetProspex Social Index (NPSI)", which measures activity across nine major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Est-ce que la technologie désurbanise la ville
Par Hubert Guillaud le 12/07/11 | 5 commentaires | 3,432 lectures | Impression Pour la sociologue et économiste américaine Saskia Sassen ( Wikipédia ), qui introduisait la 3e édition de la conférence Lift France qui se tenait la semaine dernière à Marseille, la ville est devenue un espace stratégique pour tout type d’applications technologiques, mais dans quelles mesures ces capacités technologiques déployées dans l’espace urbain urbanisent-elles véritablement la ville ? “A l’heure où tout le monde se demande comment utiliser la ville, diffuser ses services dans l’espace urbain, la question de savoir si les technologies urbanisent ou pas la ville me semble d’importance.”La ville volante, une utopie dégénérescente ?
L'imaginaire conduit à dépasser les limites de la réalité, en attestent les projets de ville volantes. Pourquoi serions-nous tentés par la cité suspendue ? Explications de Philippe Gargov.