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How artificial intelligence can aid urban development

Open Access Government - Technology News

Artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development, especially when it comes to transportation infrastructure Planning and maintaining communities in the modern world is as simple as threading a needle with an elephant. A restaurant opens while a shopping mall shutters its doors.

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Insights from Big Data on How COVID-19 Is Changing Society

The City Fix

Networked personal devices and automated sensors are now ubiquitous, not to mention communications technologies like the internet that. Between the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, our ability to understand the effects of infectious diseases has increased exponentially. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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How to Effectively Plan Your Public Involvement Initiative for Transport

Social Pinpoint

The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative. DCTA needed a flexible suite of community engagement tools to carry this off in a short amount of time. This was of great help since this was our first time developing a digital engagement campaign of this magnitude with so many features.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

" Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. historic architecture 2.

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Metrics for measuring the health of rivers, lakes, and oceans in your community

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These seem like pretty good criteria for use by local planning systems when it comes to the health of the rivers, creeks, canals, waterfronts, lakes, and oceansides in their communities. Rivers are the primary source of drinking water to most communities in the United States. Drinking water.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. The Council has lost confidence in the Montgomery County Planning Board and accepted these resignations to reset operations,” said Montgomery council president Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large).