Technology
Home, Version 2.0
Experimental homes are testing the limits of technology. Your future home may use technology to watch you live.
What Can Technology Learn From Planning?
Is urban planning a good metaphor for information technology planning? A programmer offers his perspective.
A Review Of General Motors' Hy-wire Concept Car
General Motors' Hy-wire concept car used hydrogen fuel and has video-game-like controls.
Gas Mileage Claims Of Hybrid Cars Overstated
Consumer Reports has shown that hybrid cars get less than 60 percent of EPA estimates.
Cars Losing Out To Phones As Status Objects
The use of autos as status objects is losing ground to a more environmentally and socially benign item -- phones.
Norway Hosts Creative Eco-Friendly Projects
A windblown island off Norway is being used to test ways of overcoming a big drawback of alternative energy: How to store it.
UIUC Unveils World's Most Advanced Building
The newly opened Siebel Center is a 225,000-square-foot computer shaped like a building.
Worst Rail Disaster In History?
The BBC News is reporting that up to 3,000 people are feared dead or injured in a huge fuel train collision in North Korea.
NASA Satellite Data Used To Predict Growth
NASA has published remarkable satellite images of projected growth in for the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area.
Will New Wireless Technology Encourage Sprawl?
Will the availability of wired broadband service in remote areas encourage urban sprawl?
Southern California Quake Date Predicted
UCLA scientists predict that a quake of magnitude 6.4 or larger will strike Southern California by September 5th.
Are Mag Lev Trains Too Loud?
A new study analyzes people's reactions produced by the surprisingly loud Maglev trains which make many feel 'insecure' and 'startling'.
How To Build Your Own Segway
Engineer and robotic enthusiast Trevor Blackwell details how to build your own Segway using off-the-shelf parts.
Mechanized Parking Garage takes the hassle out of storing your car
A new fully automated parking garage stores cars efficiently and effortlessly.
Tech And Science Index: How Does Your State Rank?
Massachusetts, California, and Colorado lead Milken's 2004 state technology and science index.
Observing Urbanization from Space
New technology allows decisionmakers to simulate future impacts of today's land use decisions through satellite imaging.
The Mapmakers
Welcome to the home of Thomas Bros. Maps, where 'map geeks aren't made. They're born.'
A Great Hype: The Truth About Hydrogen
Hydrogen is no greener than the energy sources use to produce it.
3-D Models Allow Visitors to See the Future
Advanced technology creates real-to-life representations of architecture before groundbreaking even starts.
First Regional Telecommunications Plan?
Regional planners in southeastern Wisconsin are undertaking what may be the first regional technology planning effort in the nation.
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
