The importance of cities meeting global climate targets is undisputed. Since the COP21 Paris agreement, many more cities have joined early leaders like Copenhagen and Stockholm in pledging to become […]
A high-tech neighbourhood could turn Toronto into a world renowned innovation hub
A high-tech neighbourhood designed by Google’s sibling company has been pegged as a way for Toronto to become a hub in the burgeoning field of urban innovation. “From a very […]
This algorithm has found the greenest city in the world 2
Greenest Cities – Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver. An algorithm created by MIT’s Senseable City Lab scours Google Street View images and works out how green a city is from a human […]
Europe Is Dead Serious About Killing Off Diesel Cars
While diesel cars aren’t particularly prevalent in the U.S., they’re prized for their fuel efficiency in Europe. But even though they sip fuel, they also produce far larger quantities of […]
A.I. and Cities: Platform Design, Algorithmic Reason and Urban Geopolitics
How cities may evolve in relation to computationally-rich algorithmic perception, sensation, cognition and physical automation. In this wide-ranging lecture, professor of Digital Design Benjamin Bratton outlines how cities may […]