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San Francisco is famous for its steep hills. There are over 50 hills within the city and while they provide some great views once your at the top, they can also be a real pain to walk up. But walkability isn’t just about hilliness or proximity to shops, its a combination of many different factors. |
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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? |
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Solving problems at the local level, the kind encountered by inhabitants of big cities and regional centers, is becoming more and more feasible thanks to projects based on crowdsourcing technology, like these two online platforms from Russia. |
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In the two years since Transport for London lifted all restrictions on the commercial use of data, a whole fleet of applications have been released that make getting around London much easier, whatever form of transport you rely on. Here’s four apps to help you get around London on public transport. |
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Mobile technology is offering a fast track to sustainable health, by connecting city dwellers to green space and granting easy access to live data on public health. Here’s 5 apps that could make a healthy and sustainable urban lifestyle that little bit easier. |
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Want to use Facebook for more than just keeping up with your friends? Easy! Though Facebook isn’t quite a treasure trove of Twitter or Tumblr proportions for urbanism resources, there’s plenty of pages worth giving your valuable like to. Here’s ten of our favourites. |
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When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? Thanks to light pollution, probably not very much. Only 10% of the UK enjoys a truly dark sky, and it’s a similar situation across the urbanised world. But these four ideas could change that. |
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Managing a large building’s energy consumption is no easy task, with little visibility as to where energy is actually going. Enter ‘Pulse’ – a digital tool which monitors a building’s electricity usage and updates straight to the web in near real-time. |