Oct 24, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. Urban sprawl, its effect on mobility, and how we can tackle it, was the focus of this discussion. Mark Dixon began by asking whether allowing people to work from wherever they want…
Oct 20, 2014
Cities are becoming bigger and denser in an era of unprecedented urbanization. At the same time, large-scale mobile data layers exist atop these dense environments. Combining these two trends to better understand the city will lead to a great age of Urban Digitization, which can be used to help residents, businesses, and governments gain insights…
Oct 20, 2014
“The city with which we end the 20th century and enter the 21st is untamed, shrew, capricious, ever-changing; actually not a city but a text written by millions of unknown writers, unaware that they are writers, read by millions of readers, each reading his or her own personal and subjective story in this ever-changing chaotic…
Oct 17, 2014
Who should design the city? Architects? Citizens? Can resident-led initiatives in urban design affect cities on a large scale? Would you 3D print your home? These are a few of the ideas we addressed in our ‘Making the Future City’ Tweet chat on Wednesday, October 15. Centering around topics raised in our Making the Future…
Oct 15, 2014
In the summer of 2011, after graduating from the industrial design program at California State University Long Beach, I moved to Paris in order to reconnect with my family, French culture and food. I started looking for jobs, industrial design networking events, and opportunities to meet people with similar career paths. I was particularly keen…
Oct 07, 2014
Often, artists and designers are asked to do projects in the outer zones of the city to help in the regeneration of the area, but very view see that central London as needing help, rethinking and opening up. We set up Makerversity to change this. Makerversity started out as a work and education space for…
Oct 06, 2014
Are wellness, happiness and purpose changing the way we live? Tim Leberecht was the moderator of the panel Next Generation Concepts On the Contemporary City: Wellness, Happiness and Purpose at the NewCities Summit 2014 and opened the discussion by quoting Aristotle: “People gather in cities first and foremost for security, then for economic opportunity, and…
Oct 03, 2014
Some years ago, in 2006, I was teaching in a private architecture school in Paris. The school wasn’t concerned enough by the evolution of the world. So I convinced a couple of teachers to set up a new school and we started working on it. But some months later, the new director of our school…
Oct 03, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. This session discussed the emergence of the sharing economy and its relationship to urban environments. The speakers examined how a growing number of technological platforms geared at sharing resources efficiently may offer…
Sep 29, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. How do we define green cities? Is a green city different from a smart city What is the role of technology in the green city? What are some of the successes and…
Sep 26, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. A discussion of Dallas’ evolution over the last 50 years often begins by addressing how the city has overcome big setbacks, from the most famous one – the 1963 assassination of president…
Sep 23, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. Introducing this century as the century of cities, Parag Khanna focused on making certain the assembled audience fully understood the magnitude of the growth of cities throughout the world. Amid the battery…
