TOPIC: CITIES (29)
GOOD Ideas for Cities
http://www.good.is/ideas/postsGOOD Ideas for Cities taps creative problem solvers to tackle real urban challenges and present the solutions at live events across the country.
Better Cities Now
http://bettercitiesnow.comBetter Cities Now provides news and insights for the people that run cities. At its core, it considers how the urban environments that nearly all of us call home can be made, well, better. This means making them better places to live and work, improving the way they’re governed and run, and reducing their impact on society and the environment. We don’t think cities are bad places, quite the contrary. But we do believe they could be a lot better.
Tags: Better Cities Now, Better, Cities, Government, Local Communities
Cities Alliance
http://www.citiesalliance.org/ca/about-cities-allianceThe Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development.
Tags: Cities Alliance, Slums, Urban, Poverty, Cities
New Urbanism
http://www.newurbanism.orgNEW URBANISM promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-use communities composed of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities.
Tags: New Urbanism, Communities
This Big City
http://thisbigcity.netThis Big City is an award winning sustainable cities blog covering innovations in urban design, architecture, culture, technology, transport and the bicycle. Launched in September 2009 by Joe Peach, This Big City now features content from urbanism writers and organisations all over the world, and publishes in English and Chinese.
Tags: This Big City, Blog, Joe Peach
Partners for Livable Communities
http://livable.org/Partners for Livable Communities is a national nonprofit organization working to restore and renew the communities we work and live in. Partners has over thirty years of experience in solving community problems by providing information, leadership and guidance that help communities help themselves. We welcome the opportunity to bring our experience to your community.
Urban Life International
http://www.ulicanada.org/Urban Life International is an independent research training organization with the desire to foment a better understanding and response to the urban challenge. The urban challenge has been described as the need to transform concrete and steel into communities of health and hope. The people who live in cities are caught in-between segregation and integration, diversity and distinction, and density and privacy. Their quality of life is determined in how they respond to these challenges.
Tags: Cities, Urban, Communities, Urban Life International, Research
City Form Lab
http://cityform.mit.edu/en.htmlThe City Form Lab at the Singapore University of Technology & Design in collaboration with the School of Architecture & Planning at MIT focuses on empirical studies of urban form. We develop new software tools for researching city form; use cutting-edge spatial analysis and statistics to investigate how the physical pattern of urban infrastructure affects the social, environmental and economic quality of urban environments; and develop creative design and policy solutions for contemporary urban challenges. By bringing together multi-diciplinary urban research expertise and excellence in design, we develop context sensitive and timely insight about the role of urban form in affecting the quality of life in 21st century cities.
Tags: City Form Lab, Architecture, Urban, Software, Research
Sustainable Cities International
http://sustainablecities.net/Founded in 1993, Sustainable Cities International is a registered not-for-profit organization based in Vancouver, Canada. Our mission is to co-create with cities around the world, to catalyze action on urban sustainability. We are a think-tank and a do-tank!
Tags: Sustainable Cities, Vancouver, Canada, Urban, Cities
Pavement to Parks
http://pavementtoparks.orgSan Francisco's streets and public rights-of-way make up 25% of the city's land area, more space than all the park area combined. Many of our streets are excessively wide and contain large zones of underutilized space, especially at intersections. San Francisco's "Pavement to Parks" program seeks to temporarily reclaim these unused swathes of land and quickly and inexpensively turn them into new public spaces.
Tags: San Francisco, New York City, Green, Public Spaces, Cities, Beautification, Makeovers, Pavement To Parks
Worldchanging
http://www.worldchanging.comWorldchanging is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. It is the brainchild of Architecture for Humanity and the designers who volunteer with us and through our local chapters, as well as the result of a year-long partnership that began in spring 2006 when Architecture for Humanity won the prestigious TED Prize.
Tags: World Changing, Architecture
Creative Mornings
http://www.creativemornings.com/CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types held in major cities internationally. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!
Tags: Lecture, International, Sharing, Knowledge, Information, Creative Mornings
MESH Cities
http://www.meshcities.comMESH Cities explores the wireless systems empowered, 21st Century city through the eyes of its super-users. These are the people who are embracing the new communications and infrastructure tools that will determine the ultimate livability of the modern city. The growing ubiquity of high-speed wireless connections allows people to experience the city in ways never before possible. More than that, they can contribute their ideas about how to make our cities more accommodating and responsive .
Tags: MESH Cities, Cities, Local
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
http://www.icic.orgThe Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, ICIC strengthens inner city economies by providing businesses, governments and investors with the most comprehensive and actionable information in the field about urban market opportunities.
Tags: Inner City, Economy, Businesses, Research, Strategy
Chicago Trees Initiative
http://www.chicagotrees.netThe Chicago Trees Initiative is a city-wide, public-private effort to plant, care for and advocate for trees. This means many more trees will be planted in our great city, which is already known for its green urban spaces. And more important, existing trees will have better care – the best strategy for meeting our urban forest canopy goal. Every Chicago resident – and indeed, anyone who cares about trees has an important role to play. The goal invites all of us to be involved in planting and caring for trees on public and private land throughout the city.
