Category: North America
FUPOL Consortium
[Organization] - Posted by: Peter SONNTAGBAUER - Mon 29 Apr, 2013
FUPOL is an EU-funded research program (2011 - 2015) with 9 Mio budget. It is focused on urban policy domains such as land-use, housing, segregation, urban infrastructure and sutainable development. Its main research focus are new technologies and methods for e-governance, e-participation and policy modeling.
City planning needs student involvement
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Fri 26 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):
Going to school in the center of an exciting and growing city makes the UT experience unique among Texas’ public universities. But along with growth come growing pains — traffic, most notably — which cause the glamour of urban life to fade. To make Austin more accessible and to keep pace with comparably sized cities, we need a rail transit system that can effectively and efficiently connect the densest and most vibrant parts of the city, and students need to be involved in the planning that is necessary to make this happen.
Digital Urban Planning Starts with Common Tools
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Tue 23 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): , Colin Wood
In Louisville, Ky., Ted Smith, chief of economic growth and innovation, is working to help his fellow government agencies meet their goals by harnessing new approaches to open data in what he calls "digital urban planning."
Contest: Atlantic City of the Year
[Award] - Posted by: Cities AtlanticArc - Fri 19 Apr, 2013
Spring arrives and, with it, the moment has come to choose among all the Atlantic flowers.
Summer 2013 Junior Associates Program: Economic Development
[Job] - Posted by: Edna Osebe - Thu 18 Apr, 2013The Asia Foundation’s Economic Development (ECON) unit seeks a Junior Associate (JA) to work in our San Francisco, CA office during the summer of 2013. The ECON JA will work primarily with the ECON Associate Director and Senior Program Officer on a series of internal and program-based projects.
Equity, Demography and the Future of the American Economy
[News] - Posted by: Dave Hahn - Thu 18 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): Dave Hahn
Advancing equity — just and fair inclusion into a society in which everyone can participate and prosper — has often been viewed separate from, or even opposed to, efforts to foster economic competiveness and efficiencies in the marketplace.
Results from a group blogging event on social equity
[News] - Posted by: Dave Hahn - Thu 18 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): Dave Hahn
Meeting of the Minds and urban accelerator Tumml organized a group blogging event on April 2nd, 2013. Participants wrote a response to the following prompt question and published the response on their blog on April 2nd, 2013. Prompt question: How is technology impacting social and economic divisions in cities?
Grant Awards for the use of global health, poverty & development, education and information - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Posted by: Edna Osebe - Wed 17 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The foundation is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family." The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty globally to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.
Bajo Carbono Inc.
[Organization] - Posted by: Enrique Rebolledo - Fri 12 Apr, 2013We are a company that facilitates investments in the public services and infrastructure sector, such as waste-to-energy projects and waste water treatment plants. Our focus is in reducing financial burdens to local governments, by changing business models and using diverse sources of income in urban environments.
Housing Finance Information Network (HOFINET)
[Organization] - Posted by: Marja HoekSmit1 - Tue 9 Apr, 2013Housing finance is a growing concern exacerbated by a lack of information.
