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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 Cities...
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
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE's big battery energy storage project dubbed a "game changer"Council Lead Partner GE will provide a 30-MW battery energy storage system as part of Coachella Energy Storage Partners' supply contract...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
At first glance, it certainly looks like an unusual approach to solving the problem of providing electricity to the remote, isolated villages and communities of the world: bringing young grandmothers who live in those areas to a training college in...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Economic development, Energy, Citizen engagement
As we age, we tend to get a little self-conscious about how we look. That’s also a bit true of Singapore, which is turning 50 this month. And it’s celebrating with a truly extreme makeover –- reinventing itself inside and out.The city state is going...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Analytics, Examples and case studies
A massive urban growth boom is occurring throughout the world, forcing city leaders to grapple with stretching their resources and finding others to help cover the costs of critical development priorities. In this video moderator Arvind Satyam,...
Resources - 08/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Finance and procurement