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Looking for legacy : for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure
31 January 2012At a time when more and more major sports events are being planned (London 2012 Olympic Games, Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Russia, Euro 2016 in France, Rio 2016 Olympic Games, etc.), La Fabrique de la Cité/The City Factory decided to explore the potential impact of major new sports facilities on urban areas at its seminar, “Looking for Legacy: for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure” held in London on January 25, 2012.
Co-creating the digital city
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Some 75 percent of French people consider that digital sciences have made useful contributions to the transportation sector; however, one in three do not consider that digital technology is useful for the environment, agriculture or art. Those are the findings of a barometric survey presented by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) at the Metro’num forum, held in Bordeaux on December 8 and 9, 2011, on the theme, “Co-creating the digital city.”
New technologies and mobility
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On Thursday, November 24, 2011 in Nice, The City Factory explored the following question: “Technologies designed to serve mobility or vice versa?”
To make transportation infrastructure more effective, Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented, at The City Factory’s seminar, experiments currently under way in a number of large cities, notably, Venice, Copenhagen, and Singapore.
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Carlo Ratti presentation - The City Factory Seminar
06 December 2011Presentation of Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable City Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during the City Factory seminar around the topic of "new technologies designed to serve mobility or vice versa ?" He 's explaining the concept of "smart city". Cities where you can provide in real time data given by users and how it could be used to optimize mobility?
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