Technology
A Real Life 'Italian Job'?
Two City of Los Angeles senior traffic engineers are charged with breaking into traffic control computers and disabling traffic signals at busy Los Angeles intersections.
Small Bay Area Commuter Train Hopes To Revolutionize Passenger Rail
Caltrain, the nation's oldest commuter rail system west of the Mississippi, unveiled a plan to electrify the line that operates 96 daily trains from San Francisco to San Jose using technology that requires changes in federal and state regulations.
Baltimore Installs Solar-Powered Parking Meters
The new high tech meters allow drivers to take their unused time to another parking spot in the city.
Gehry's See-Through Symphony
Architect Frank Gehry's design for a new concert hall in Miami Beach blends openness with the next-generation Internet.
Using The Internet To Find A Parking Space
A new Internet start-up hopes to become the eBay for parking spaces by allowing people to find and trade parking online.
Milwaukee Launches Innovative Economic Development Website
The new site, the latest in a growing number of online tools used to cultivate investment, allows companies to research demographics, find vacant parcels, and identify business assistance programs.
The Technology Behind Planetizen
An article featured in Linux Journal chronicles the process for updating the infrastructure of a high-traffic website like Planetizen to the Drupal content management platform.
A Building That Eats Smog
A new church outside Rome designed by architect Richard Meier has been built with a self cleaning exterior that also destroys pollutants in the air.
VirtualCity Delivers First Person Views Of The Urban Landscape
A new Canadian company has matched GPS-coordinated street-level camcorder shots of Toronto with mapping software to enable a real-life horizontal view of any coordinate, allowing users to preview a destination before visiting.
Cities Try Online Fix For Parking Crunch
The City of Santa Monica, California, provides real-time parking availability information on the Internet in hopes of relieving traffic problems from motorists circling for a parking space.
Paris Wants To Woo The 'Creative Class'
Once a magnet for writers, painters and other artistic types, Paris' Mayor wants the city to attract the laptop toting young bohemians that represent the new 'creative class'.
Geneva's 9-Point Plan To Stay The Global Governance Capital
A group of urban experts has released a plan to keep Geneva at the forefront of international affairs and governance. Included in the plan is a call to ensure the city's compatibility with technology and information media.
How Google Earth Is Transforming Architecture
Technology such as Google Earth is dramatically transforming how the public perceives architecture and how architects design buildings.
The Emerging Virtual Worlds
Industry observers are linking the emergence of place-based 3-D virtual worlds like Second Life, to the next generation of the Internet. IBM is the first major forunte 500 company to make a major investment in the technology.
How Cities Compete In The Media Economy
American cities suffer from outdated infrastructure that inhibits the local economy and quality of life. Those cities that can evolve to meet the needs of the information age will be the ones to prosper immensely in the next 10-20 years.
San Francisco To Implement Bus Rapid Transit Service By 2010
While late to adopt bus rapid transit, San Francisco's Muni is planning to bring fully-fledged BRT lines, complete with dedicated lanes, to the city by 2010.
Microsoft Launches 3D City Maps
In a challenge to the popular Google Earth, Microsoft has released a new technology that allows users to view 3D models of cities.
The Next Generation of Elevators
With skyscrapers in Dubai and around the world pushing ever higher, engineers are introducing new elevators that save space and reduce waiting times.
Using Google Earth To Illustrate A Comprehensive Plan
A team in Durango, Colorado, uses Google Earth to visualize the city's preferred development scenario, and produces an YouTube instructional video.
Using Google Earth and Sketchup To Visualize Development Proposals
Anthony Townsend experiments with two powerful tools from Google that make it possible to visualize the view impacts of a new 26-story building in New York.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
