“Smog-Free Bicycle” Concept: Smog Goes in, Fresh Air Comes out

Modern smog, as a type of air pollution caused by coal fire, transportation emissions, and photochemical smog that is highly toxic and harmful to human, is becoming a severe urban environmental problem. Recently…

Signal #1 — “Make ‘Fairness by Design’ Part of Machine Learning”

E-scooters: City Transportation Solution or Nuisance?

Tinder for Cities

Urban planning and the property sector are beginning to experience the digital transformation. The City of Santa Monica (CA)…

Signal 1: Cost-free Kinetic Energy

Non-renewable energy sources like coal and petroleum are slowly but surely getting depleted and…

Autonomous Metro @ NYC

New York City’s subway system is known to be crowded, dirty and inefficient for a long time. Over the past decade, an…

Road Diet: An Alternative to Traffic Improvement

Hamsterdam 2.0: Safe injections sites in cities can mitigate the social costs of the opioid crisis

Signal 1: How much good can a urban farm produce?

Nathan Caplan

Urban farms are both an innovative and creative way to reduce carbon emissions, reduce produce costs, and provide greenspace for the community. While they may not be the “mega-farms” producing much of the…

Signal 1: X-Road & Government data interoperability

Signal 1: Should we create a new image for buses?

Signal 1: Urban Heat Islands

Surface urban heat islands forms due to the sun, heating on exposed urban…

Signal 1: Drones promote the development of smart cities

In recent years, drone technology has developed rapidly and is used in various industries. In urban planning: drones can quickly build 3D models of cities through short-time automated scanning. Among the transportation systems…

Signal 1: Food desert and More

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), around 23.5% of Americans live in…

Signal 1: Fast Fashion or Fast Waste

Whenever we step in Soho, we see a bunch of people who dressed in the latest fashion style especially in the beginning of September during which is the New York Fashion Week. However, along with the high cognition of the high fashion industry, the destructive…

Signal 1: Traffic Lights on the Ground — — Life Saver for the Smartphone Addicted Pedestrians

As smartphones gets smarter and smarter, people tend to become more reliant on it. We are spending more and more time on the smartphone. We use smartphones while eating…

Signal 1: Preferential Rents: A Loophole from New York Landlords to Increase Rents Arbitrarily

Preferential rents which owners of rent-stabilized apartments offer are lower than maximum legal regulated rents to attract tenants. The following table apparently…

BigBelly Bins

Waste Management has been made more efficient by smart bins such as BigBelly bins. These solar-powered bins have compaction technology which allows them to hold five times more rubbish than a traditional bin. They are also equipped with sensors that can detect when a bin is at full capacity. Collectors…

Signal 1: ‘No country for old men’

For a city like New York which has the most well connected subway systems in the world, the…

“IN TOWN CHECK-IN” IN HONGKONG

Civic Analytics & Urban Intelligence — Signal 1

Signal 1: MTA Blueprint

What will the MTA look like in 2028? Complaints about the subway, including notorious delay, inaccurate arrival time, and security risks, are everywhere in New York City. It drives me to think what change we can bring to the MTA in the next ten years.

The Neglected Favelas

The Favelas, located on the hills of Rio de Janeiro, often received dysfunctional portrayal that overlooked a dilemma to this urban phenomenon.

Rio’s favelas are large informal housing that sprawled from poor communities, which are not governed by any public…

Philippines are building a fully green city to prevent natural disasters

Philippines, with it’s capital Manila located on a massive valley fault that can move any time, are one of most prone to natural disasters countries in the world. To prevent devastation, government is…

Philippines are building a fully green city to prevent natural disasters

Philippines, with it’s capital Manila located on a massive valley fault that can move any time, are one of the most prone to natural disasters countries in the world. To prevent devastation, government is…

Signal 1: wz1405_Wenjie Zheng

Mobility has been a crucial issue in city operation. Roadway traffic and vehicles are one of the major players on the road. The article, ‘Traffic Jam? Blame ‘Induced Demand’,’ from City Lab discussed how a good intention could go possibly wrong. (Schneider, 2018) The author…

Merge the plants with Architectures

Nowadays with the fast pace of life, anxiety has become a common problem among modern people…

Signal 1: Beijing Traffic Jam

Beijing is one of the most congested cities around the world. The causes of traffic situation are various…

NYC Transit System Needs Update

As urban areas have developed and expanded, more and more people have moved into cities, sharing limited resources. According to MTA statistics, NYC subway has increased over 100 million ridership over past 5 years, hitting 1 billion ridership in 2017. As a result, the…

Signal 1: Opioid Sewage Testing

“Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids” (The National Institute on Drug Abuse). As the opioid overdose crisis grows across the country, more governing bodies have been looking for ways to address the issue. With the illegal…

Signal 1: Low public transportation ridership in Los Angeles

According to LA Metro, the average rail and bus ridership on the weekday is about 1.2 million whereas the City of Los Angeles has a population of almost 4 million. On the other hand, NYC with a population of 8.5 million has…

Signal 1: Trash Crisis in the United States of America

The United States of America is one of the largest producers of waste in the world. The US is undergoing a crisis of recycling waste since the Republic of China has banned the imports of mixed paper, metals, and 26 other solid waste to reduce their carbon footprint via…