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The Rise of the Super Commuter - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

Scheduled to open in 2014, the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, as the town is officially known, will come complete with roads, buildings, water lines and power grids, enough to support 35,000 people — even though no one will ever live there. It will be a life-size laboratory for companies, universities and government agencies to test smart power grids, cyber security and intelligent traffic and surveillance systems — technologies commonly lumped together under the heading of “smart cities.”

Not-So-Smart Cities - NYTimes.com

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MIT launches Urban Network Analysis, an open-source urban planning software to help build the cities of the future. (via)

via curiositycounts:

A city is an ongoing holistic design problem.

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Peter Murray, chairman of the London Festival of Architecture.

via The New York Times

May the force be with you.: New York City of the future.

New York City is one of the most played locations in games, serving as the inspirational backdrop for games like Grand Theft Auto, Prototype, Crysis 2 and many, many, (perhaps too many) more. Will future visions of the Big Apple be… fun?

Newsweek tasked three architecture firms with…

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