Oct 31, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. Air hubs play a key role in the development of the cities that they are attached to. Using Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as a springboard, this panel’s moderator Greg Lindsay asked the…
Oct 29, 2014
America’s love affair with the car may have reached its apotheosis, but the modernizing world is now entering its period of infatuation. We should consider the benefits of ever-growing personal mobility relative to society’s burden for accommodating this. Therefore, mobility alternatives become necessary to deal with unprecedented levels of urbanization and broader demands for environmental…
Oct 28, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. In this session, a direct link was carved between urban entrepreneurship and urban development. The speakers illuminated how cities can work more closely with the entrepreneurial class in order to produce greater…
Oct 24, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. Urban sprawl, its effect on mobility, and how we can tackle it, was the focus of this discussion. Mark Dixon began by asking whether allowing people to work from wherever they want…
Oct 20, 2014
Cities are becoming bigger and denser in an era of unprecedented urbanization. At the same time, large-scale mobile data layers exist atop these dense environments. Combining these two trends to better understand the city will lead to a great age of Urban Digitization, which can be used to help residents, businesses, and governments gain insights…
Oct 20, 2014
“The city with which we end the 20th century and enter the 21st is untamed, shrew, capricious, ever-changing; actually not a city but a text written by millions of unknown writers, unaware that they are writers, read by millions of readers, each reading his or her own personal and subjective story in this ever-changing chaotic…
Oct 17, 2014
Who should design the city? Architects? Citizens? Can resident-led initiatives in urban design affect cities on a large scale? Would you 3D print your home? These are a few of the ideas we addressed in our ‘Making the Future City’ Tweet chat on Wednesday, October 15. Centering around topics raised in our Making the Future…
Oct 15, 2014
In the summer of 2011, after graduating from the industrial design program at California State University Long Beach, I moved to Paris in order to reconnect with my family, French culture and food. I started looking for jobs, industrial design networking events, and opportunities to meet people with similar career paths. I was particularly keen…
Oct 07, 2014
Often, artists and designers are asked to do projects in the outer zones of the city to help in the regeneration of the area, but very view see that central London as needing help, rethinking and opening up. We set up Makerversity to change this. Makerversity started out as a work and education space for…
Oct 06, 2014
Are wellness, happiness and purpose changing the way we live? Tim Leberecht was the moderator of the panel Next Generation Concepts On the Contemporary City: Wellness, Happiness and Purpose at the NewCities Summit 2014 and opened the discussion by quoting Aristotle: “People gather in cities first and foremost for security, then for economic opportunity, and…
Oct 03, 2014
Some years ago, in 2006, I was teaching in a private architecture school in Paris. The school wasn’t concerned enough by the evolution of the world. So I convinced a couple of teachers to set up a new school and we started working on it. But some months later, the new director of our school…
Oct 03, 2014
This post is part of our Re-imagining Cities discussion series, following the third edition of the NewCities Summit in Dallas in June 2014. This session discussed the emergence of the sharing economy and its relationship to urban environments. The speakers examined how a growing number of technological platforms geared at sharing resources efficiently may offer…
