Results tagged “futurecities”

“How do you tell what’s going on in a city?” asked Assaf Biderman, associate director of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. “You can wire every piece of pavement, but it’s not very sustainable, it’s not scalable, it’s expensive. We’re partnering with infrastructure managers, trying to get information from them that we can process and use. The information they collect from managing their own network can be used to figure out what’s going on in the space.” more ›

2008 marked the first year in human history that more than half the world’s population lived in cities. By 2030, about 5 billion people will reside in urban areas. Humanity’s migration to a handful of key population centers will test our knowledge of urban development, and force innovators to find more efficient ways to build and grow our cities. In this two-part series, we’ll examine the coming evolution of the metropolis. Today’s guide is Kristina Hill, associate professor at the University of Virginia, who lectured at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on March 18. more ›