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All Blog Posts Tagged 'cities' (7)

Paradigm shift.

Probably you already know a lot of this stuff, but it is all new for

me... I've been watching a lot of doc**entaries and reading a lot of

orientation guides lately about the monetary system and changes we can do to make everything better in this world, probably not for us

but for our children and their children.

Corruption, scarcity, competition, crime and wars among others, are

creations of the monetary system. There will be humans in the future

that look to the… Continue

Added by Diego E. Daly Lopez on May 14, 2010 at 4:06pm — 2 Comments

Sustainable cities, easy as one-two-three!

Here's how we can have urban resiliency.

1. Everyone, get on your bike.

2. Everyone have a backyard garden.

3. Everyone get a cistern for your runoff, so you can have access to clean water.

4. Everyone, if you know someone who would…

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Added by Mazarine on April 29, 2010 at 11:38pm — 4 Comments

Green floating cities

Hello all!

I've made a lot of ressearch in the last few days to find something really interresting to talk about. Really, it's been hard, but I found something incredible.

Most scientists agree that the sea level will rise constantly for the next decades. Many islands will disappear and many shores will be flooded. This raise the following issue: Were will we go?

One of the many solutions is to buy floatting cities!…

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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 26, 2010 at 2:19am — No Comments

Vertical farming

It's a very interesting proposition that could cut cost of transportation of food to urban environments, and enable a degree of self-sufficiency to cities. I hope it will be tasty. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming

Added by Mladen Janković on March 31, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Communities (Urban)

There is a reason I love living in a big urban environment. Urban environments [apartments] create more space because they stack homes on top of each other. Apartment complexes equal beauty to me. They cost less to heat, and are much more affordable. Imagine a city without suburbs, in place of the suburbs we place parks, and natural agriculture. Apartments allow us to share. We share our homes and can grow closer to our neighbors.

Apartments = Community =…

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Added by Nicolas Dykstra on March 29, 2010 at 6:42pm — 2 Comments

Making cities better - by playing with them

My hero is Augusto Pirovano, CEO of CriticalCity. At 27 (he is now 30) he began to wonder what would happen if we could a play so big that it could encompass our wh*** lives. He lives in Milano, Italy, a business capital plagued by pollution, social tensions, and more than its fair share of corruption. He thought that, if people could perceive their cities as playgrounds, they might live out their cities in a more lighthearted way, and think of things… Continue

Added by Alberto Cottica on March 24, 2010 at 5:54pm — 10 Comments

Visualising a Smarter City

A few minutes ago I came across the following from my tumblr stream. IBM have for some time been running the smarter planet series (http://asmarterplanet.com) and as part of that smarter cities. The following is directly cribbed from their site but I thought it might be of some interest as a resource for our EVOKE community:…

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Added by ben on March 24, 2010 at 10:37am — 1 Comment