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Chicago Lakeside Development wins Award!

The Chicago Lakeside Development Project was recognized in Copenhagen on Oct. 11, 2012 druing the Sustainia Awards ceremony. The project received the "Best City Solution" award, which was presented by Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger, cofounder and committee chair of the Sustainia Awards. Read more >>

Events

Meeting of the Minds 2012

Check out hightlights from the Oct 9 - 11 event in San Francisco >>

 

GLOBAL ROUNDTABLE (#4)

ON EDUCATION: Advanced Degrees and Certificate Programs for

Gigabit City Leadership, Education, Business and Smart-City Planning

Learn more about this event >>

Check out the EVENTS CALENDAR for other upcoming events!

New Smart Cities title to join Urban Spaces Book Series

 

 

Visual Profile Books seeks projects to showcase in its new book--the seventh in the series: Urban Progress: Smart Cities / Smart Growth.

 

Urban Land Institute has collaborated on previous books in this series.

 

Architects, Urban Planners and Smart Technology vendors are invited to participate.

 

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Verge Central:
Laurence Cruz
Urban Edginess:
Joseph Petrillo
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Oct 15, 2012 Europe’s Future-Proof Broadband: A Question of Symmetry
Travel abroad always comes with connectivity surprises.   On a recent trip to London, I was surprised to find hotspots from BT (British Telecom) virtually blanketing parts of the city. Every time I tried to get online, they were among the availab...
Joe Petrillo
Oct 19, 2012 From the Bard to the Sun King: It's Always Something
In previous posts I focused on the effects of modern mobile communication technology on how and where we live and work and how it alters our lives. I tried to show how those changes impact not just the individuals themselves but society at large. In o...

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Architecting Innovation: Melissa Jun Rowley
Trends in Energy Innovation: Matt Laherty
Melissa Jun Rowley
Oct 16, 2012 MoTM 2012: Tim Campbell On Creating Confidence, The Youth Bulge & The Mobile Miracle
Veteran urban planner Tim Campbell , Chairman of the Urban Age Institute, spoke on the Just City panel during Meeting of the Minds 2012, where the discussion revolved greatly around how cities can transition from old development models to modernitiy....
Matt Laherty
Oct 23, 2012 Great Innovation Happens in Unexpected Places
Silicon Valley’s Role in Great Innovation   I often meet people who believe that Silicon Valley is the heart of high tech innovation.  While it may contain the world’s largest community of engineers and technology firms, that doe...

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Changing the Game:
Rick Huijbregts
Community News:
Ann Marcus
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Sep 29, 2012 Green Building Centre at intersection of ICT and Construction.
Earlier this year I wrote a blog about the launch of a brand new Building Automation program at George Brown College in Toronto. The message was simple: if the construction and real estate industry is changing how it designs, builds, and operates ou...
Ann Marcus - Community Manager
Oct 12, 2012 Meeting of many great minds: Melding toward an interesting future
When Meeting of the Minds 2012 came to an end yesterday in San Francisco, I knew I had been witness to a truly amazing event--literally a meeting of a few hundred minds melding around today's known challenges and those we haven't even identified yet t...

New 2012 E-Book: Smart Cities

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2012

Smart Cities Exposé: 10 Cities in Transition

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Check out the latest E-Book from the Smart+Connected Communities Institute.

 

This visually stunning e-book delivers fascinating interviews with city, community and thought leaders in 10 cities around the world. Bonus audio and video enriches the experience. Analysis by industry experts on trends in the smart city movement rounds out the content....More >

 

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