May 17, 2016
Q&A with Alix Armour, Co Founder/CEO, Nimble Scooters NewCities: You have just successfully funded the world’s first cargo scooter, The Nimble Urban, through a crowdfunding campaign. How has Nimble Scooters evolved as a mobility solution and as a young startup since you joined NewCities at our Making the Future City event two years ago? Alix…
May 13, 2016
Pour la version en Français cliquez ici Q&A with Josée Noiseux, General Manager for Advancement and Partnerships, NewCities NewCities: You have had a long career working as a lawyer before turning your attention to writing and philanthropy and most recently, joining NewCities. What attracted you to NewCities? Josée Noiseux: Urbanization is on the rise in…
May 13, 2016
To read the English version click here Entrevue avec Josée Noiseux, Directrice Générale de l’Avancement et des Partenariats NewCities: Après une longue carrière d’avocate vous vous êtes davantage consacrée à l’écriture et la philanthropie, et plus récemment, vous vous êtes joint à la NewCities. Qu’est-ce qui vous attiré dans la NewCities ? Josée Noiseux: L’urbanisation…
May 05, 2016
For all of the stress we exert on our old and overstretched city infrastructure, these structures that carry us through our day-to-day lives manage to throw a lot of stress back at us. In cities around the world, urban populations are growing fast — in many cases too fast for our already overstretched infrastructure to…
Mar 18, 2016
– “Have you heard that they are about to build a bicycle bridge in London?” – “Yeah! I hope it will be as good as the one in Copenhagen…” It’s hardly surprising that urbanists refer to famous cities as their reference point: New York, Paris or Tokyo come up in urban debates more often than,…
Feb 29, 2016
On a 15-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas, an experiment is underway that demonstrates the role the Internet of Things (IoT) will play in smart cities of the future. The idea is to more effectively manage the movement of people through this busy corridor by integrating multiple modes of transportation: automobiles, buses, light…
Feb 04, 2016
When a man slipped in between the train platform gap at a railway station in Western Australia last year, hundreds of passengers worked together to push the train aside to free him. The video went viral as a heartwarming example of cooperation amongst strangers. But collaboration in cities is not always a given, and the…
Jan 08, 2016
Ellis Rubinstein deepens our understanding of the scientific value of cities through a Q&A with John Rossant as the New York Academy of Sciences becomes a Member of NewCities. JR: NewCities is delighted to welcome the New York Academy of Sciences as a member. Our two institutions share a similar approach to the vital importance…
Dec 21, 2015
What makes a space public? Is it ownership, access, design, the public, or use that define it? Why is this important? Our global cities are increasingly becoming spaces of greater inequality and segregation by income. In such cities, New York being one of them, where people live in fairly economically or ethnically homogenous neighbourhoods, it…
Dec 16, 2015
Look back at some of the urban topics we’ve covered this year! 1. Reinventing Paris: Building the City from the Bottom Up By Jean Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris Deputy Mayor Jean Louis Missika shares his insights on the Reinventer Paris project, the innovative open call for urban design proposals for 23 sites across…
Dec 14, 2015
It feels like such a long time ago but in 2012 I bought my first drone. Back then drones were not an easy straight out of the box flying experience. Rather, drones came in many parts, which had to be carefully configured before they could become flying machines. This technical process had some value; it…
Nov 19, 2015
The world’s greatest cities – Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, etc – have been around for centuries. These cities started small, grew outward, and, as land became scarce, densified upwards. But what happens when a city is created from scratch within a time frame of decades rather than centuries? King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is…
