More of what’s not in the budget… The New York Time’s describes the administration plans to create $1.5 Trillion, out of $200 Billion in infrastructure spending, over the next 10 years. City’s around the nation will need to shell out a sizable, 80% of the costs of new infrastructure development (including plans already underway). Read more in the New York…
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Feb
Prepare for the Future Says Forbes
05 FebPrepare for the future says Forbes in their article, “Trumps 1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Would be Great in the 1950’s.” The plan to prepare for the very emerging transportation technologies about to unfold over the next five to ten years they suggest will take more than slapping on some asphalt. New York and New Jersey are particularly hit with…
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Feb
Urban Planning – Look Out for This
03 FebPlanning By Whose Design – Data or People or Both? Get ready for this. Tech companies are vying to build cities. As described in CityLab’s, article’s, When a Tech Giant Plays Waterfront Developer and Alphabet Announces Plan to Turn Toronto Neighborhood Into a Living Laboratory, Google’s …”Sidewalk Labs” is working with Waterfront Toronto (land owners), and have partnered with government…
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Futuristic
30 JanIt’s Happening… Jacque Fresco, a futurist, imaged a world without suffering and undue poverty and set out to make it happen. He envisioned the Venus Project, a futuristic concept of new cities where people had full access to resources (which he believed was the root of all problems) and began building in 1976. The plan is being carried out by…
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Jan
What’s Ford Up To?
15 JanSo What’s Ford Doing? Roads for cars, not people? The article in Medium”The City of Tomorrow: Together, Let’s Take Back the Streets” suggests, we’re building roads for cars, Not people. We used to spend more time with people, now we spend more time in cars, in congestion, 16 hours vs a whopping 38. In this article, “The City of Tomorrow: Together…
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Jan
Mastercard Wants You!!
15 JanCollaborator’s Wanted – with “City Possible” Through Mastercard… Collaboration is the name of the game according to the article in CityLab’s “City Possible a New Approach to Solving Cities Systemic Problems.” By 2050 the majority of people will be living in urban areas though the needs of the people in the the city, at the rate we’re going, will not…