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24Mar
Smaller is Smarter
Written by Rob Aalders I live and work in a former mining town in the deep south of The Netherlands. Far from the Dutch big cities, but in the heart of Europe. The type of city you won’t find in the top charts. A town that has a shrinking population…
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12Mar
Smart City: our future or empty hype?
You have all heard the term “smart city” a lot recently. Major cities claim to be “smart”, seminars and conferences pop up everywhere and the “smart”-label is attached to all sorts of technology, and many people start to believe the smart city rise is a mere empty hype. When asked…
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10Mar
Written by David Tuinzing Master Chef rethinks the way of shaping communities into smarter cities Corporate guidance–not always a good thing We have to change our behavior in the drive to approach the smart city. The time we assume in the resolving power of the economical driven society is no…
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04Mar
Interview with Carlo Ratti – SENSEable City Lab
Think about how different were most of the things that you have done today just 20 years ago He is an engineer, architect and he likes to invent the future. Carlo Ratti is the director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of the Technology. A short interview with one…
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27Feb
Anthony Townsend “People are aware that the path to smartness is going to take longer”
The title of his book says it all. ‘SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia’. In one sentence urbanist and research director at the Institute of the Future, Anthony Townsend captures the dilemma of the cities of the future. Townsend, one of the keynote…
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19Feb
Porto “City of the Future”
Written by Vitor Pereira Porto wants to take the lead in research, development and promotion of new technologies in the city. The Conference “Future Cities 2014”, took place last week in the old monastery of São Bento da Vitória demonstrated just that, with the presentation of numerous solutions that are being…
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12Feb
Five principles for a smarter city
Most of you who are familiar with the concept of Smart City (however broad or narrow you define this), and you probably know several commentaries and models of subjects that are part of it. I follow my own classification based on the spatial part of cities. I will elaborate on…
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16Dec
GreenITNet: sharing green IT good practices and activating European cities
Written by Maikel Bouricius The Interreg IVC project GreenITNet is a collaboration between 10 European cities from 9 different countries. The project focuses on the activation of European cities with a high sustainable energy ambition, a strong ICT technology potential and previous experience in Green IT. Green IT Amsterdam is one…
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