Technology
Cities Need A Wi-Fi Network
Madison, WI, considers setting up a city-wide wireless internet network.
Philadelphia: World's Largest Wifi Hot Spot?
Philadelphia is considering an ambitious project to turn all 135 square miles of the city, including poor neighborhoods without high-speed Internet access into the world's largest wireless hot spot.
Flying Cars Are Just A Decade Away
Flying cars are possible within 10 years. The first step will be flying taxis, according to a Business Week report.
Electronic Eavesdropping At City Hall
Construction of San Jose's new city hall is delayed after questions are raised about electronic eavesdropping and collusion.
Architects Without Borders
Wired Magazine interviews Cameron Sinclair, director of Architecture for Humanity -- an effort to bring world-class architecture to impoverished areas.
Improve Traffic: Let Your Car Drive
A new study concludes that many traffic jams could be prevented if onein five vehicles on the road used new adaptive cruise-control.
Back To The Future Of Transportation
Visionary transportation ideas that never got off the ground.
Traffic Control Of The Future
Could a futuristic reservation-based traffic system reduce the need for signals and increase traffic flow?
The Anti-Sprawl Concept Car
Smart Cities group joins forces with Frank Gehry and General Motors to design a concept car that tackles pollution, safety and urban sprawl.
First Open Source GIS Conference A Success
Photos and reports from the first North American Open Source Geographic Information Systems Conference.
Should Your General Plan Have A Technology Element?
The viability of a community is linked to its access and use of information and communications technologies. How are communities planning for technology?
Technology Behind World's Tallest Building
MIT's Technology Review offers a fascinating look at the latest building technologies being used in the world's tallest building. [Includes graphics.]
Gulf Streaming Media
A distributed computer simulation of catastrophic global warming spreads.
The Dream Green Car
The Gem -- the world's best-selling electric car -- enters the UK market to rave reviews.
The Ultimate Geographic Information System
Combining the latest advances in space-based imaging, GPS, mobile phones, search engines, and Web-based delivery, digital mapping is heading into exciting uncharted waters.
Invisible Walls
Inventor plans to develop technology to allow people to see through "invisible" walls.
Drive-by Photography
Project to use van equipped with digital cameras aims to to build a nation-wide database of 15 million buildings.
King County's 8-city E-Permitting System
The permitting process is one that lends itself to automation, and moving to an e-permitting system has the potential to reap huge rewards.
Open Source Agriculture
Smart breeding could remake the field of agriculture, and change how the world farms.
We Know Where You Live
The benefits and privacy concerns of "databasification".
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
City of Moreno Valley
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
City of Cambridge, Maryland
