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The Los Angeles Times has an op-ed columm today that highlights the global to urban shift that is the largest population shift in urban history. “Never in human history have so many people changed their locations and lifestyles so quickly. Each month, there are 5 million new city dwellers created through migration or birth in [...]
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While the World Bank launched the interactive Mapping for Results (M4R) site in October of last year as part of a new open data initiative, today marks the official launch in conjunction with the World Bank Spring Meetings. This portal introduces a new level of transparency on the location of World Bank projects, their progress, [...]
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We’re hearing this morning from James Moore, senior vice president for National Community Planning and Urban Design at HDR, on the “Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities” at the Autodesk AEC Media Day. HDR is a full-service architectural and engineering firm based in Omaha, Nebraska that does work around the world, with [...]
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Carleton’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre has launched a new interactive online sea ice Atlas as an educational resource to share knowledge, stories, maps and language between the Inuit and the general public. The Atlas condenses some of the knowledge and skills developed by the Inuit to hunt and travel on the sea ice, and [...]
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The Green Map movement began with the director Wendy Brawer creating a green map for New York City about 15 years ago to chart all the signs of progress in the city toward sustainability. The map collected natural, cultural and technological innovations with an approach and common set of map icons that took hold in [...]
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UN-HABITAT and Shack/Slum Dwellers International have undertaken a pilot project in Uganda to record land occupancy and ownership in GIS that is based on the actual pattern in an urban slum, as opposed to the parcel boundary. The effort tackles the reality that families live on very small footprints and that a thousand families can [...]
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The Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) has launched the ‘Inventing the Future: Shaping WA from 2010 to 2050′ initiative in an effort to provide an ongoing platform for public discourse and policy creation. The initiative kicked off earlier this month, and a series of forums are planned throughout the year. At the center of [...]
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The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) has launched a prototype “Chronic Disease GIS Exchange” website meant to provide a forum for sharing examples, ideas and techniques for using GIS to inform policy and document geographic disparities to help prevent heart disease, stroke and chronic diseases. The site includes GIS resources, GIS training, and a [...]
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In the wake of the BP oil spill there’s a lot of activity underway to try and prevent a repeat. The environmental threats go beyond just oil extraction, to include the threats from storms and rising sea levels, with economic impacts including seafood, offshore energy, critical infrastructure, navigation routes, tourism, and wildlife and marine habitats. [...]
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