Demographics Migration In Peterborough, more than half of residents are migrants. Image: Opportunity Peterborough. According to new figures released last week by the ONS, net migration – which stands at +330,000 for the year ending March 2015 – is now at the highest…
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The urban face of migration: three quarters of the migrants in England and Wales live in cities
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The Urban Internet of Things
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The Internet of Things is everywhere, with sensors and communication technologies embedded in all the materials of daily life. Today, the idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) is also everywhere: it is has become one of the most widely-discussed…
The rebirth of Britain’s inner cities, mapped
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Demographics Britain Liverpool city centre. Image: Open Street Map. In 1999, the Richard Rogers’ landmark Urban Task Force report set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Since then, we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the…
Tagged with: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Britain, Citygeographics, CityMetric, data visualisation, demographics, Dr Duncan Smith, Edinburgh, Glasgow, inner cities, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, mapping, population, rebirth, renaissance, Sheffield, UK, urban, Urban Task Force
Citizen Urban Science
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New report by Anthony Townsend and Alissa Chisholm at the Cities of Data Project: “Over the coming decades, the world will continue to urbanize rapidly amidst an historic migration of computing power off the desktop, unleashing new opportunities for data…
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Smart cities need open data
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Interview: Ben Cave of the Open Data Institute argues that openness has to be the core principle in the evolution of urban services Ben Cave is not a fan of intricate planning for smart cities; he believes that they need…
Mining Administrative Data to Spur Urban Revitalization
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New paper by Ben Green presented at the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: “After decades of urban investment dominated by sprawl and outward growth, municipal governments in the United States are responsible for the upkeep of…
The Shared Economy, Disaggregated Data And Other #GoodReads from Living Cities Staff
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Living Cities has been working to dramatically improve the lives of low-income people in America’s cities for close to 25 years now. Our diverse portfolio gives us a unique vantage point to identify trends and accelerate the uptake of promising…
Tagged with: disaggregated, gender, housing, income, inequality, Living Cities, low-income, opportunities, Sharing economy, technology, Uber, urban, work
From Ideas to Implementation: 3 Ways to Ensure that Citizens Have Access to Information
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Good urban governance begins with open access to information. São Paulo, Brazil offers a number of lessons for making data accessible and encouraging public participation. (Photo: Gabi Sakamoto / Flickr) How do we make cities work for people? As a…
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Q&A: What makes a great city?
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A paper published this week in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, which combines mathematical modelling with London Crossrail, suggests that the greatest cities are those with the best connectedness. We spoke to the lead authors Dr Aaron Sim, Professor…
Tagged with: connectivity, crime, Dr Aaron Sim, evolution, face-to-face, great city, Imperial College London, infrastructure, innovation, interactions, London, mobility, open data, opportunities, Professor Mauricio Barahona, Professor Michael Stumpf, Ruth Milne, supermarket, The Royal Society, Transport, urban, wealth
How Open Data Is Transforming City Life
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By Joel Gurin Start a business. Manage your power use. Find cheap rents, or avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods. Cities and their citizens worldwide are discovering the power of “open data”–public data and information available from government and other sources that can…
Tagged with: crime, Govlab, Huffington Post, Joel Gurin, NextBus, open data, Purple Binder, SpotCrime, Transparency, urban
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