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The Top 10 Benefits of Public Transportation - Smart Cities Dive
Thursday, April 9 has been designated National Stand Up For Transportation Day. On this day, Americans will meet in communities across the country and online to press Congress to invest in long term transportation funding, especially public transit.. Organizations like Voice for Public Transit will work to channel the public's sense of urgency that public transit is …
What are the top 10 US smart cities in 2024?
May 30, 2024 · Seattle is the “ smartest” U.S. city, according to a recent analysis of the nation’s 48 largest cities by real estate technology firm ProptechOS.. What does that mean? ProptechOS describes a smart city as more data-driven, more sustainable, better engaged with the community and easier to travel around than the average city. To come up with its ranking of the smartest cities in the U.S ...
The 12 Rules of Sustainable Urbanism - Smart Cities Dive
The 12 rules of sustainable urbanism are enshrined in the Freiburg Charter, a document produced by what is possibly the world's most sustainable city; the city which won the World Habitat Award in 2013 (for which prize in 2014 nominations are now open, by the way. See: www.worldhabitatawards.org). Situated in southern Germany it has long been a beacon of sustainable urban development and has ...
Serious Games for Urban Planning - Smart Cities Dive
Tygron, a company that creates serious games for urban development, hosted part of the Serious Gaming workshop. Tygron's products were created out of a need for city planners to be able to conceptualise development initiatives before they are put …
Pickleball is booming. Here’s how cities are adapting to the craze.
Feb 7, 2023 · Now local governments in Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis; Long Beach, California; Asheville, North Carolina; and elsewhere are trying to adjust in the short term while also baking pickleball into their long-term community development and equity plans.
Houston’s housing-first model is reducing homelessness. Here’s …
Dec 5, 2022 · The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have offered robust federal financial support for permanent housing and housing-first programs in recent years. Through the housing-first model, three states and 82 communities, including Houston, had achieved net zero veteran homelessness in 2021, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
5 Cities with Congestion Pricing - Smart Cities Dive
Congestion pricing is gathering some inertia in cities worldwide for a few reasons; safety, money, and public desire are among the main ones. Unlike traditional mechanisms to deal with more cars such as, well, building new roads, congestion pricing has had a profound effect on the cities it …
10 US cities ready for a ‘smart city future’ - Smart Cities Dive
Feb 1, 2023 · "The cities that will thrive in the future will be the ones best adapted to our new and greener ways of living. By looking at a range of factors, including tech infrastructure, sustainability, and the tech-driven job market, we were able to get a better picture of the U.S. and European cities will be leading the way into a smarter future,” said …
Two cities’ approaches to increasing public bathrooms
Aug 2, 2022 · It’s a nationwide problem: U.S. cities don’t provide enough bathrooms for their population, especially those who are unhoused. The U.S. has just eight public toilets per 100,000 people. The country with the best record, Iceland, has 56 public toilets per 100,000 people, according to 2021 data from U.K. bathroom supply company QS …