Despite social scientists express a high interest in the use of big data technology, the impact of big data on the social sciences has so far been limited ...
Victory for San Francisco’s cycling advocates
A group of anonymous cycling advocates set up a number of provisional safe-cycling interventions in San Francisco. The city decided now to keep one of the ...
How ICT empowers women and girls in Senegal
Various initiatives in Senegal aim at increasing the digital literacy of women and girls to increase their chances for employment and participation in ...
The benefit of arts for neighborhood revitalization
The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (Hands) has already been a major force in driving the renewal of Orange, New Jersey before it founded ...
Green bond market for “Global South”
Cities in the “Global South” are urbanizing at three times the rate of cities in the “Global North”. However their access to ...
How will citizens respond to smart cities?
Seven members of Forbes Technology Council offer their insights. Forbes …
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Initially founded in 2010 as a respond to the earthquake in Haiti, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has developed and spread globally. The project ...
Study on Manhattan’s 19th century development
A new study from Barnard College outlines the rapidly evolving land-use patterns in Manhattan in the mid-19th century. The study covers a period from ...
MIT’s improved multi-material 3D printing software
Up until now 3D printing with different materials required programming and other skills. The new software developed by MIT’s Computer Science and ...
The nostalgia of Soviet era bus stops
In a seven-year project Peter Ortner, a photographer from Nuremberg, took photographs of bus stops from the Soviet era. He published them as part of a new ...
