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Studies of Barcelona’s acclaimed Bicing bike share program have found that the success of their biking scheme has reduced the region’s annual CO2 emissions by 9,000 metric tonnes. Researchers for the British Medical Journal used participants of the program – almost 182,000 of them – and found that the benefits of the bike sharing included reduced greenhouse gas emissions and contributed to 12 less deaths each year due to increased exercise. The study reported that this outweighed the risks and dangers often associated with cycling.
6 Awesome Bike Sharing Schemes From Around the World | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
"Today, TED announced the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. Breaking from their tradition of recognizing an individual global innovator, TED is embracing the concept of crowd-sourcing urbanism (an idea we obviously support at Open Source Cities). The organizers published this call-to-arms in seeking ideas on the City 2.0:
Trend 1: Crowd-Funded Urbanism | the internet of things, open data and the city | Scoop.it
A gym that lets humans generate energy for a Spanish city; open data about obesity levels in the Netherlands; a smart bus network navigation system in Japan, and a wireless network to control street lights; monitor car parking spaces and more in San Francisco. These are just some of the solutions being asked for by cities around the world as part of the Living Labs Global Award. Living Labs Global is a non-profit association which promotes new technologies and services in cities.
20 Cities Want Your Innovative Ideas - The Next Web
A territorial network can work at different scales and contexts.
A VILLAGE BY THE SEZ: THE DAFEN SAMPLE OF CHINA’S URBANIZATION
komonews.com A Seattle woman recently exchanged one-sided wedding vows with an abandoned warehouse building that is set to be demolished to make way for a new apartment building. In December, Babylonia Aivaz and 16 friends occupied the warehouse, located on 10 th and Union streets, to protest the planned development of an apartment complex on the site.
Seattle woman “marries” building to protest its demolition | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
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Artefacto: Augmented Reality and urban planning - Inria | Augmented Reality - Urbanism | Scoop.it
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"Today, TED announced the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. Breaking from their tradition of recognizing an individual global innovator, TED is embracing the concept of crowd-sourcing urbanism (an idea we obviously support at Open Source Cities). The organizers published this call-to-arms in seeking ideas on the City 2.0:
Working together to make our cities great | EngagingCities | the internet of things, open data and the city | Scoop.it
To walk the path of Jane Jacobs – review of What We See, Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs | Emergent Urbanism
Jane Jacobs died in the spring of 2006. Three years earlier she had published the last book of her illustrious career as a philosopher, Dark Age Ahead , prophesying the fall of North American civilization.
myurbanist: urbanism evolving, with law in mind
How will the city of tomorrow reflect adaptive reuse of the city of today? I don’t think we ask that question broadly enough, and our day-to-day, property-specific incrementalism can easily overshoot the greatest lessons from history for today’s city politics, regulation and economic constraints.Image courtesy of author's blog Pedestrians and cyclists can breathe easier on Washington, DC’s streets, according to Mayor Vincent Gray, because of what he describes as a plan to “cover the entire city” with traffic cameras.
An urban sustainability, green building, and alternative transportation community | Sustainable Cities Collective
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Olympic Watch Videos The whimsical plastic people-mover, a blend of monorail and recumbent bicycle, was a big enough idea to attract an investment by Google.275 proposals from 98 countries were evaluated through the internet from October to December by the following jury members of the 4th ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE CONTEST:
4th Advanced Architecture Contest - Results
The notion of ecological finality dates to the middle of the twentieth century, concurrent with the ecological knowledge about our planet.