In Milton Keynes plots of land wait ready to be built on with roads and other infrastructure already in place, like missing teeth in the blocks of the American-style city grid.
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This work eventually fed into the creation of Twitter, which lets not just vehicle fleets but regular people broadcast instant status updates with no need for specialized equipment, and not just across a city grid but across the globe.
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We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder, Colorado, a community that is on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city.
Enbw, Germany's third-largest utility, reckons that, because of falling industrial demand, it is generating three terawatt-hours less electricity a month which is the equivalent of removing a medium-sized city from the grid.
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In another, the smart grid was such a source of contention that the city drew up a smart grid Bill of Rights in response to constituent anger.
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Connected vehicles are also the subject of another recent series of Cisco white papers, which look at how vehicles could connect not only to each other, but to infrastructure, the grid, and city buildings.
The energy concerns of the future have also been taken into account with grand schemes of super-fast charging batteries supplied ultimately by solar or wind power connected to the stacking stations that could even feed back into the energy grid of the city itself.
By passing through this screen, visitors leave behind the grid of the city streets and enter an experience where spaces flow freely into one another, gently canted forms lend a sense of dynamism to the walls and ceiling, and surfaces de-materialize into the weightless, illusory depth of the moving image.
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The city is laid out on a grid and the part of interest to visitors is compact.
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The city is designed on a neat grid with numbered streets, strip malls are found everywhere and, like many American towns, you must drive on highways to reach anywhere.
And GE (NYSE:GE) recently announced that it will be partnering with the City of Yangzhou to build a smart grid demonstration center.
Picking up this lesson, Mr Gursky often arranges his city or nature scenes in an invisible chequerboard or grid.
St Louis is a city of the east, like Philadelphia, with its denser grid of streets and its German immigrants (the world's biggest brewery is here).
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