Comments on: Urban Sustainability – Not Just A Dream

By: Gordon Feller

Gordon Feller — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:59:22 +0000

Bill,

Well, I guess that great minds think alike: as you were writing you comment we were just now planning a blog post to continue this discussion.

So….please be sure to “stay tuned.”

You touched on an issue that’s, right now, under the microscope here: the “Internet of Everything.”

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By: Gordon Feller

Gordon Feller — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:58:13 +0000

Kim,

I’ll promise to stay right on top of these issues, and continue blogging about them here on this page.

One historical note: The public fascination with the futuristic city was stimulated some time before the Jetsons showed up on our TVs. During the World’s Fairs of the 1930s the public-at-large started to imagine (with a lot of coaxing and pushing from GM and others) the “city of the future.” Not surprisingly, perhaps, cars were at the center of that vision.

To keep our historical memories fresh, the Museum of the City of New York just opened “Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s,” an exhibition celebrating the six fairs, including New York’s 1939 World’s Fair, which was the largest and one of the last of the six, masterminded and built by then Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.

On a personal note: I grew up a few miles from that Fair’s site, now Flushing Meadows Park in Queens NYC. And, we all know that site — it’s featured in every one of the “Men In Black” films. Usually a creature from another planet is fighting it out with the MIB, right there, at the globe or another part of the Park.

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By: Kim Tremblay

Kim Tremblay — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:09:58 +0000

To some, ‘smart cities’ may seem like a thing of the future- like “The Jetson’s” many of us grew up with. The reality is that smart city technology is here today, and it is being used to make cities more livable and sustainable for future generations- in cities new and old. Technology and analytics can be applied to existing systems and sub-systems to change the way we work, live and play. Take a look at this video to see how intelligence is being brought to the grid in The Netherlands: http://tv.schneider-electric.com/site/schneiderTV/index.cfm?video=0yNGlmNzoP0fpPiu2JMW1DZIPkInTh5O#ooid=0yNGlmNzoP0fpPiu2JMW1DZIPkInTh5O

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By: Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:54:12 +0000

this is very helfpul to read.
i clicked throuh to the provided links, and those were also very illuminating to read.
clearly, a sharper focus on the ‘Internet of Everything’ is going to force us all to rethink how infrastructure and assets (whether devices or homes or cars or whaetever) can be linked in ways that produce meaningful results for cities.
can you elaborate?

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