Technology
Technology Behind World's Tallest Building
MIT's Technology Review offers a fascinating look at the latest building technologies being used in the world's tallest building. [Includes graphics.]
Gulf Streaming Media
A distributed computer simulation of catastrophic global warming spreads.
The Dream Green Car
The Gem -- the world's best-selling electric car -- enters the UK market to rave reviews.
The Ultimate Geographic Information System
Combining the latest advances in space-based imaging, GPS, mobile phones, search engines, and Web-based delivery, digital mapping is heading into exciting uncharted waters.
Invisible Walls
Inventor plans to develop technology to allow people to see through "invisible" walls.
Drive-by Photography
Project to use van equipped with digital cameras aims to to build a nation-wide database of 15 million buildings.
King County's 8-city E-Permitting System
The permitting process is one that lends itself to automation, and moving to an e-permitting system has the potential to reap huge rewards.
Open Source Agriculture
Smart breeding could remake the field of agriculture, and change how the world farms.
We Know Where You Live
The benefits and privacy concerns of "databasification".
Home, Version 2.0
Experimental homes are testing the limits of technology. Your future home may use technology to watch you live.
What Can Technology Learn From Planning?
Is urban planning a good metaphor for information technology planning? A programmer offers his perspective.
A Review Of General Motors' Hy-wire Concept Car
General Motors' Hy-wire concept car used hydrogen fuel and has video-game-like controls.
Gas Mileage Claims Of Hybrid Cars Overstated
Consumer Reports has shown that hybrid cars get less than 60 percent of EPA estimates.
Cars Losing Out To Phones As Status Objects
The use of autos as status objects is losing ground to a more environmentally and socially benign item -- phones.
Norway Hosts Creative Eco-Friendly Projects
A windblown island off Norway is being used to test ways of overcoming a big drawback of alternative energy: How to store it.
UIUC Unveils World's Most Advanced Building
The newly opened Siebel Center is a 225,000-square-foot computer shaped like a building.
Worst Rail Disaster In History?
The BBC News is reporting that up to 3,000 people are feared dead or injured in a huge fuel train collision in North Korea.
NASA Satellite Data Used To Predict Growth
NASA has published remarkable satellite images of projected growth in for the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area.
Will New Wireless Technology Encourage Sprawl?
Will the availability of wired broadband service in remote areas encourage urban sprawl?
Southern California Quake Date Predicted
UCLA scientists predict that a quake of magnitude 6.4 or larger will strike Southern California by September 5th.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
