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Jul

Eight City Slogans and What they Might Mean

Categories: Arts and Culture, Asia and the Pacific, People, UK, USA and Canada

by Joe Peach

We recently published an article on the evolution of Kansas City's visual identity, looking at the city's attempt to rebrand itself with the slogan 'The Fountain City'. The post generated a lot of discussion over on Tumblr, with many of our followers sharing their own city's slogan. Here's eight of our favourite. Read more

Jul

Eight Ideas for Digital Cities: Your Views from #citytalk

Categories: Data and Infrastructure, Digital, Social Media and Web 2.0, USA and Canada

Tags: Canada, cc, citytalk, E-U & citytalk, Technologie+Design

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by Joe Peach

Last week we hosted a #citytalk tweetchat on the topic of The Digital City, and the discussion offered both a glimpse into how digital tools have changed the way we engage with the built environment and a vision for the future of the tech-enabled city. Here's our favourite moments. Read more

Jun

Energy, Jobs, and Sustainable Cities: Seven Ideas from #citytalk for Rio+20

Categories: Energy and Services, Governance, Latin America, People, Planning

Tags: cc, citytalk, Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20

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by Joe Peach

With Rio+20 kicking off next week in Brazil, we decided to host our most recent #citytalk tweetchat on the topic of energy, jobs, and sustainable cities. Hundreds of people joined the discussion and our conversation reached over 80,000 twitter users. Here's some of our favourite tweets. Read more

Jun

It’s Time for a New Approach to Urban Design Education

Categories: Governance, People, UK

Tags: cc

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by Joe Peach

The demands of our cities are changing, and more of the same is simply not an option. Yet whilst more of the same is the last thing our cities are promising us, more of the same is exactly what we’re getting in most urban design education offerings at universities. Read more

May

Megacities: Eight Ideas from #citytalk for Developing Future Cities

Categories: Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, citytalk, megacities, megacities microcities

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by Joe Peach

Last week we hosted another #citytalk tweetchat with the New Cities Foundation on the topic of Future Cities. With the world urbanising, current cities are growing and many new cities are being built. But will the future of the world be led by megacities? Read more

May

Microcities: Five of the World’s ‘Smallest’ Cities

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Planning, UK, Urban Scale, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, islands, London, megacities microcities, microcities

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by Joe Peach

For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population live in cities. And though Asian megacities get plenty of coverage, what makes a city varies wildly. So rather than thinking BIG, here's five of the world's 'smallest' cities. Read more