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(L-R) Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India; Kalyani Patil, Mayor, KDMC; E Ravendiran, Commissioner, KDMC; Apeksha Patil, Mayor, Ulhasnagar Municipal corporation; Praful Shah, President, MCHI-Kalyan DombiviliSmart...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
By Barbara ThorntonIn 1994 when Tom Murphy became Mayor of Pittsburgh, the city had been in decline for 50 years. He looked at his assets:300,000 residents (half of what it had been)Thousands of acres of empty or underutilized landA significantly...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
A booming economy is normally a good thing, but it’s part of the reason traffic headaches are getting worse across Europe. In nearly every major city, traffic delays are getting worse -- some by several hours each year. But the European city that...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation
In a letter to The Guardian, executives from public and private organizations in the UK added their names to a Litter Manifesto, pledging their support "to make our local spaces cleaner, safer and more inviting."Among them are corporate officers...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Waste management, Citizen engagement
MasterCard is teaming with travel intelligence firm Skift to spotlight how major destination cities are preparing for the new age of urban mobility. In particular, the Future Cities project will explore how global cities are creating seamless and...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Payments, Transportation, Connectivity
Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth, NH will soon have integrated structural, traffic and environmental monitoring programs. It's one of nine cutting-edge traffic safety improvement projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).The idea...
Article - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
In their early years, automobiles and airplanes were laughed at and criticized by many. Something about the very idea that a vehicle could travel faster than a horse – and why would you want to fly through the air anyway? Now both are part of...
Article - 08/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation
"CRG doesn't build one-off applications such as standalone parking apps that don't connect to anything else ... and inevitably become stale," explained Dr. Gregory G. Curtin in announcing Civic Resource Group International's new CivicConnect™...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Hawaii's Punahou School was designed on an open plan to take advantage of the mild climate. That means an open campus with no interior hallways. Because of the open design, numerous entry points must be monitored by video security equipment. The...
Resources - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
This video from Skift, a travel industry intelligence and marketing publication, and Council Lead Partner MasterCard share how the city of Amsterdam is responding to a population boom brought about by its status as a progressive and central urban...
Resources - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools