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Smart ideas for everyday cities
(Artist’s impression of the new Birmingham City University campus, currently under construction alongside Millennium Point and the new Eastside City Park. Image by Birmingham City University.) The...
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Smarter City myths and misconceptions
(A good example of a technology dilemma: do smartphones encourage social interaction, or inhibit it?. Photo by LingHK) Part of my job is to communicate the ideas behind Smarter Cities, and to support...
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No-one wants top-down, technology-driven cities. They’d be dumb, not smart.
(William Robinson Leigh’s 1908 painting “Visionary City” envisaged future cities constructed from mile-long buildings of hundreds of storeys connected by gas-lit skyways for trams, pedestrians and...
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Reclaiming the “Smart” agenda for fair human outcomes enabled by technology
(Lucie & Simon’s “Silent World“, a series of photographs of cities from which almost all trace of people has been removed.) Over the last 5 years, I’ve often used this blog to explore definitions...
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4 ways to get on with building Smart Cities. And the societal failure that...
(William Robinson Leigh’s 1908 painting “Visionary City” envisaged future cities constructed from mile-long buildings of hundreds of storeys connected by gas-lit skyways for trams, pedestrians and...
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