Monday, July 30, 2012

Solar Energy - Urban Ingenuity: Infrastructure




Enhancing and improving infrastructure can make the city better, smarter and more liveable. Edwin Heathcote, architecture critic, introduces the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards, which aim to highlight the most innovative developments in infrastructure, from high tech communications to basic services. More from the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: www.ft.com www.FT.com



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Experts Optimistic that Brazil Can Meet Growing Demands on its Infrastructure
PYMNTS.com
As a result, cities have a pressing need to address the challenges of urbanisation and find solutions that modernise infrastructure, improve efficiency, enhance quality of life and foster sustainable growth and development. The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards ...

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Urban ingenuity is not always necessarily easy to see – even though you might know it when you encounter it. It might not be ... The entries range from the macro to the micro, from city-wide transport infrastructure to the provision of toilets for ...




VOXXI (blog)

Enabler President Barack Obama digging a hole with 'that'
VOXXI (blog)
“Although when folks omit entire sentences of what you said — they start splicing and dicing — you may have gone a little over the edge.” Optimized Obama 2012 Balt Enabler President Barack Obama digging a hole with that. President Barack Obama ...

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Survival and Commerce in Little Mogadishu
Africa.com (blog)
Despite many problems, most notably with public infrastructure and waste management, refugees have prevailed and transformed the district into a prominent business center. Shoppers from all over Kenya flock ... Eastleigh's transformation into a ...




A drop in China's dirty water bucket
MarketWatch
BEIJING (Caixin Online) — Hurtling beneath the ground, there are sturdy new subways coursing through every major urban center of China like an electric current of modernity. The country's rapid urbanization in a matter of mere decades has produced ...

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RT @FTPressOffice: Ideas in action: energy & infrastructure. The first of three FT reports on urban ingenuity. Download at http://t. ...9:11 AM Fri Jul 27, 2012 via Twitter for iPad








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