Its Future Cities Demonstrator, as the prize is known, is intended to act as a blueprint for other cities.
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In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.
One firm goes by the name of Future Cities Development Corporation.
We believe that in the future cities will be more fun but also more environmentally aware and, once again, art will play a fundamental role.
"Glasgow has some quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK for instance - and the hope is that if we bring together energy, transport, public safety and health it will make it more efficient and a better place to live, " said Scott Cain, the TSB's project leader for Future Cities.
For the future of cities, the Tuesday vote at the Chicago city council was very, very important.
This Administration has made smart infrastructure investment a priority, both to create jobs and to build a strong future for our cities.
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The power of the crowd will be crucial to the cities of the future, thinks Carlo Ratti, MIT's head of Sense-able Cities.
Even if more development is allowed in the countryside, many people in future may choose the cities, if they remain attractive enough.
Steffen, a journalist and founder of WorldChanging, raised money for his book Carbon Zero, which details the future of carbon neutral cities and comes out next month.
Add in legal and institutional barriers (Germany is a federal state, Poland a centralised one, something that almost killed the sewage plant), and the road to a common future for the two cities looks bumpy.
The hotels are sowing the seeds today for their future success tomorrow, by taking these brands into the very Asian towns and cities that will spawn a future generation of travellers.
Dorsey sees that fluidity of financial exchange as a critical capability for cities of the future.
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Most reformers quietly suggest that the cities of the future will be much freer than the rest of the country.
It is a building block for a future of smarter homes, cities, transportation, healthcare and others that will be driven by linking the interrelationships between systems and individuals.
Naved Hamid, senior strategist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), says decentralization and greater local autonomy will be an important factor in the successful cities of the future.
Chairman of Lisburn City Council's planning committee Alderman James Tinsley said that the minister's decision would have "major repercussions" and could curb future development in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.
At whatever level of government decisions are made about cities in the future, there seems to have been an important change of attitude about what living in them should be like.
According to UN Habitat, the mega-cities of the future, (those with more than 10 million residents) will be "giant potential flood and disaster traps" if insufficient action is taken on behalf of their residents.
Foreigners may face even higher expenses in some Asian cities in the near future, as governments roll back fuel subsidies.
Certainly one hundred years ago, any list of world cities that held the future in their hands would have been dominated by ones located in the U.S. (London and Berlin might have been included.) New York, Chicago and San Francisco would have made the list and cities like Detroit, St.
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China's political future depends largely on stability in the cities.
If nobody has applied in the present process, there may be opportunities again in the future - either in the two large cities, or in other densely populated areas including Inverclyde and the areas around Aberdeen and Dundee.
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Yet despite these problems, British cities are right to approach the future with confidence.
We will talk more about 3D modeling in our chapter on contextual cities of the near-term future.
And we've learned a great deal about what we can do -- and shouldn't do -- to help rebuild and revitalize our cities and metropolitan areas for the future.
"From transport systems to energy use and health, this demonstrator will play a key part in the government's industrial strategy and give real insight into how our cities can be shaped in the future, " he added.
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