Urban Futures Lab at Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities

AI in Planning: Opportunities and Challenges and How to Prepare This white paper summarizes findings from APA's "AI in Planning" Foresight Community and suggests initial ideas on how planners can prepare for AI and its potential impacts, how planners can ensure AI-based planning tools are used in equitable and inclusive ways, and what the role of the planner sho...

Local governments are at the forefront of accelerating the implementation of the far-reaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and recovering the lives and well-being of citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, they are confronted with a multitude of challenges in the process of recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and building an inclusive and resilient society in the post-COVID-19 era, including the climate crisis and the current food and energy crisis.

Addressing such cascading and intertwined challenges and crises, accelerating SDG implementation, as well as building an inclusive and resilient society all call for innovation in local governance.

You are all welcome to join us at UN DESA-KRILA Forum on “Promoting Innovative Local Governance for Accelerating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals & Building an Inclusive and Resilient Society in the Post-COVID-19 Era" and contribute to the discussion.

The Forum aims to share various approaches, strategies, and good practices in promoting innovative local governance for accelerating SDG implementation at the local level and building an inclusive and resilient local society in the post-COVID-19 era.

National and local government officials, as well as representatives and experts from research institutes, academia, civil society organizations, private sector, and regional and international organizations both in the Republic of Korea and abroad. The Forum is also open to the public upon registration (Link below).

*I'll be a distinguished speaker in Session 2: Promoting Social Inclusion & Leaving No One Behind in Local Governance - presenting innovative cases and an upcoming UNPOG handbook on promoting innovation for inclusion at the local level.

Urban Futures Lab at Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities
מרכז בר-אילן לערים חכמות Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities

Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you.

Guardian Cities ‘The case for ...”, a series of opinion pieces exploring options for radical urban change

The case for ... cities that aren't dystopian surveillance states | Cory Doctorow Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?

How do we build more sustainable cities? And what are the tools that are helping to shape that future? Join me in a live discussion with Logitech, Siemens and Wired Brand Labs as we explore what’s ahead. Register free: https://info.logitech.com/collab-live.html

‼️ Last day for registrations ‼️

The online event Cyber Agora 6 on the theme "Exploring the role of policies and governance in sustainable use of the subterranean" will take place tomorrow, March 15, 2022, at 2:00 PM CET.

As urban density is a growing concern, many city and regional tend to seek solutions in the spaces above ground level. However, we often disregard the potential of the spaces below our . Some may even argue that the future lies underground!

👉 Register now and join the event tomorrow: bit.ly/3GRmnjB

What if we had a map of everything on Earth? Jack Dangermond walks us through how a "living atlas" and "geospatial nervous system" can help us understand our changing planet and let nature guide our actions towards a more sustainable future. Watch his TED Talk video here: http://ow.ly/e8hF50HzhYr
**Reposted from Esri**

An ever-evolving map of everything on Earth What if we had a map of ... everything? Jack Dangermond, a visionary behind the geographic information system (GIS) technology used to map and analyze all kinds of complex data, walks us through the interconnected technologies gathering information about every crack and corner of the Earth. Learn ho...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/31/shanghai-releases-five-year-plans-for-metaverse-development.html

Shanghai doubles down on the metaverse by including it in a development plan A Shanghai city department's five-year development plan includes encouraging metaverse use in public services, business offices and social entertainment.

ETH Global Lecture Series will discuss what many of us wonder-about these days: When is Real Really Real?

ETH Global Lecture Series: When is Real Really Real? 18 November 2021 - Online Event - A conversation between Kate Darling, MIT, and Markus Gross, ETH Zurich, about robots, how to make them likable and how to tell their story.

First "OMERO Urban Film Award": OMERO - Research Centre for Urban Studies of the University of Turin (Italy) promotes the first OMERO award for short critical urban films and videos - in collaboration with Eleonora Leo Mignoli, Il Piccolo Cinema, Caucaso Factory, Urban Lab Torino.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2022. Detailed info at: www.bit.ly/OMERO_Award

Participants are asked to submit a short video related to critical urban perspectives. Examples may include social divides, inequality, lack of public space, insecurity, gentrification, housing, stigma, and exclusion.

Downtown Brooklyn’s Greener, Car-Free Future Is Taking Root The borough’s 2019 plan for a pedestrian-friendly downtown has been given a push by pandemic-era street changes. But right now, traffic still reigns.