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The National Building Museum has compiled quite a bit of content around their Intelligent Cities initiative. This national initiative is sponsored by IBM and Time magazine with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. This initiative has great prominence with a series of features in Time magazine, a forum planned for Washington, DC in June 2011, and [...]
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The Australian government has realized the importance of a nationally-consistent urban policy approach as well as the need to focus development on cities as engines for the country’s economy. While the country has been one of the more urbanized in the world, the government is now building on this history and looking at livability, productivity [...]
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I’ve just finished and posted a review of MacroWikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams that is a follow-on to their groundbreaking work Wikinomics. This latest takes on the broader implications of the crowdsourcing movement, and contains a nice thread of geospatial technologies as an enabler for this activity. The book opens with the [...]
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The global village construction set (GVCS) is an interesting effort that takes the existing tech of farm and industrial machinery and open sources it, optimizing the design and manufacture by using open source design, open manufacturing, and community-supported manufacturing. The group has plans to design and manufacture 40 do-it-yourself machines. To date, eight have been [...]
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set out a challenge of involving community-based activities for disaster preparedness on Challenge.gov. The challenge is to come up with ideas that engage all Americans in preparedness. They are encouraging submissions from communities of practice (such as the medical community), for innovative ideas for outreach (such as artistic expression), [...]
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The Abhu Dhabi Urban Planning Council has just launched a CitySense Sustainable Indicators Initiative aimed at measuring a city’s performance against sustainability benchmarks, and also fostering collaboration on best practices between cities. CitySense will geographically catalog information on economic, social, cultural and environmental details for each city and its respective neighborhoods. The web-based system was [...]
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The idea of the Healing Cities Project comes from a coalition of health professionals and urban planners in Vancouver, BC that are focused on maximizing citizen health and wellness through the urban form. The idea is to create a framework that fully connects human beings’ physical, emotional and spiritual aspects to all dimensions of the [...]
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Over the past few days, there have been reports from many corners of the world for all-new urban planning approaches. The Chinese government has been encouraged to take a longer-term approach to urban planning or face the strong possibility of future problems. The Environment Minister in New Zealand has launched an overhaul of urban planning [...]
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Yesterday CNN rated the best jobs in America, and GIS Analyst was ranked at number 97 out of 100 for pay and growth prospects. While it’s good that GIS cracked the list, I’m not sure what it says about the state of GIS practice that the respondents also ranked their jobs as low stress, and [...]
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Ecology and Environment, Inc. has launched their GreenRide suite of mobility management solutions to a global audience. The web-based tools help identify coordinate and encourage greener personal transportation options such as carpools, vanpools, bicycling, park-and-ride facilities and public transit. Individuals and organizations can follow the dynamic tracking of their environmental, energy and economic savings and [...]
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