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As growing season approaches, I’ve been doing some online research into how I can better manage my garden this year. I stumbled across videos from Bigelow Brook Farm, and want to share the inspiring engineering of this automated hydroponic system. It’s a great example of a finely tuned sensored system, with an automated hydroponic system [...]
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Jeff Kowalski, CTO of Autodesk kicked off today’s Autodesk University in Las Vegas with a retrospective look to the “good old days” where things were simpler, the rotary phone was technology, and the market was not yet the supermarket. Our world is full of extreme complexity now, and we’re not going back. Complexity theorists talk [...]
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Autodesk held a press event today in San Francisco dubbed, “the Sustainable Cities Roundtable,” to highlight their design products for sustainable cities. With rapid urbanization and rapid population increases, Autodesk is responding to the need for massive infrastructure investment, and a need to improve our transportation, water, electric and gas distribution, and energy efficiency. According [...]
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The Association of Brazilian Geographers are among the vocal opponents of the eviction of the 732 residents of Vila Chocolatão, a shantytown in the center of Porto Alegre. The forced eviction was planned in order to make way for a building for the Federal Public Ministry, but it has been suspended due to the outcry. [...]
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Mark Monmonier’s book “How to Lie with Maps,” is a perennial favorite within the mapping community, not because it’s a tutorial for deception, but because it brings to light the inherent bias in most mapping efforts. As with most communication mediums, those in power control the message in the map, and can manipulate outcomes. In [...]
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Autodesk has rolled out a tool for conceptual design for infrastructure with their Project Galileo software, which builds on their purchase of LandXplorer. The product retains the GIS integration that was in the original product and adds Autodesk’s rich visualization and rendering capabilities. The product provides a whole new level of geospatial visualization capability that [...]
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BIM for utilities starts with layout and design productivity that goes beyond the use of CAD and drafting tools. In the BIM environment, the creation of a line is realized in a 3D model with a perspective view and connectivity rather than simply a polygon. The software steps in to add a level of productivity [...]
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We’re hearing this morning from James Moore, senior vice president for National Community Planning and Urban Design at HDR, on the “Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities” at the Autodesk AEC Media Day. HDR is a full-service architectural and engineering firm based in Omaha, Nebraska that does work around the world, with [...]
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