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Bangkok 3D City Model Made Available to the Public

by Matt Ball on February 4, 2012

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s City Planning Department has created a 3D city planning map which is now online. The 3D city map includes traffic routes and infrastructure systems, which will we be added to with help from the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency. To date there are 990 3D structures out of a total [...]

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SXSW Tackles “City as Platform”

by Matt Ball on March 16, 2010

There’s a growing (renewed?) interest in the Internet of Things around the benefits for a more instrumented and connected city. IBM organized a session at SXSW in Austin that took place this morning titled, “City as Platform.” The objectives of the session was to discuss the role of information architects, the interface of systems with [...]

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Climate Change and Cities

by Matt Ball on May 23, 2008

The Lincoln Institute recently held an event for journalists to explore the issues of climate change and cities. The forum discussed ways that predominantly newspaper journalists could speak to their audiences about the connection between climate change and urban land use. Some interesting pieces have already come out of this session. Read a report on [...]

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