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The research arm of The Economist has just published a report benchmarking the global competitiveness of the world's 120 largest cities. We list the top ten below. You can also read a quick summary at 24/7 Wall Street but I suggest you download the...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
This article from ArchDaily meanders all over the place, but there's an important nugget buried within. Architects are often asked to design the buildings and neighborhoods and cities of the future. Yet they are woefully uninformed about the amazing...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Does the Smart Cities Council need to become the Smart Suburbs Council instead? New research from the University of Lincoln (UK), the New Zealand Energy Centre and the University of Auckland claims that suburbs have a greater potential to become...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership
Rocky Mountain Institute recently posted a thorough discussion of the value streams from smart buildings. Most people, they explain, try to cost justify the technology merely on the basis of the energy it saves. But smart buildings bring a lot more...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
By Jesse Berst Greenfields projects are vitally important to the success of the smart cities movement. Because they have fewer constraints, because they are not hampered by the additional expense of retrofitting, they become the proving ground for...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
A new post at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggests that U.S.-China climate change cooperation is climbing to the next level -- and that smart cities will be the focus. The U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group presented...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Q&A with Pascal Terrien, Director for Sustainable Cities Program, EDF Research and DevelopmentPascal Terrien leads the sustainable cities effort at French giant EDF, a Smart Cities Council Lead Partner. The EDF Group is a world-leading...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership