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Recursive Crowds

Recursive Crowds

Websites that revolve around crowd sourcing can reveal stories of neighborhoods, one such story is when a group of Harvard researchers used…
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Marvin Mananghaya

Plant Remediation of Toxic sites

https://dirt.asla.org/2010/12/22/using-plants-to-clean-up-toxic-sites/
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yulan li

Signal#3 : CityScope: Lego blocks for urban planning and resiliency

City science researchers are developing a new digital platform for urban design and development. Researchers at MIT Media Lab are creating…
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Manu Pathak
Signal 3: The Controversy of Sidewalk Labs

Signal 3: The Controversy of Sidewalk Labs

Sidewalk Lab’s Quayside project is billed as “the world’s first neighborhood built from the internet up”. In other words, the digital…
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Cyrus Blankinship
Signal 2: From Public Data to Public Knowledge

Signal 2: From Public Data to Public Knowledge

Open data initiatives have spread around cities in recent years, becoming a must in any city’s innovation strategy. Currently, no mayor…
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Pablo Mandiola
Autonomous Shuttle: the Best Solution for the First and Last Miles

Autonomous Shuttle: the Best Solution for the First and Last Miles

One mile is a tricky distance. It is unpleasantly long for walking, too short for driving or taking a cab, and there is usually no way to…
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Muci Yu
Signal 5: Using AI to forecast and make decisions.

Signal 5: Using AI to forecast and make decisions.

Renewable forms of electricity are emerging as the successors to traditional coal and gas-fired power plants. A key problem with renewable…
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Borong Lyu
Remix’s New Mobility Platform Helps Cities Run Scooter Data

Remix’s New Mobility Platform Helps Cities Run Scooter Data

Discussed in the previous signals, electric scooter sharing system has been growing its popularity in past one year. One of the hardest…
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Jiawen Wan
Signal 3: StreetSmart: The App that Integrates Homelessness Data

Signal 3: StreetSmart: The App that Integrates Homelessness Data

While technology and data analysis are taking hold of many of the operations in city government, homeless services, which are vital to a…
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Andrew Hill
Signal 2: Smarter Chatbot, Smarter City

Signal 2: Smarter Chatbot, Smarter City

The boost in artificial intelligence is now fueling a huge number of progress in techniques. Chatbot, for example, is one of the new tools…
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Yunhe Cui
Signal 2: Through Surveillance Comes Insights

Signal 2: Through Surveillance Comes Insights

Researchers all around the world are finding new uses for city data created by Google Maps. In a recent study, researchers at the Institute…
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Sam Falk

Crime Prevention through Public Art

Context: Crime Prevention through Public Art. Installation of public art in public places celebrates a sense of community and helps in…
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Manu Pathak
Signal 3: Landfill turned parks

Signal 3: Landfill turned parks

There is an increase in Municipal solid waste every year all around the world by humankind and which is being dumped into the landfills…
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HARSHAL GEVARIYA
Signal 4: LinkNYC within trains

Signal 4: LinkNYC within trains

Each and every one of us must have gotten frustrated when we have important work to do but we can’t because there is no internet inside…
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Soham Rikin Mody
The Spread of Disease and Cell Phones

The Spread of Disease and Cell Phones

Identifying innovative monitoring systems and new ways to use existing data is the direction urban epidemiology is heading. The tracking of…
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Sam Falk

Emoji Data Usage

Emojis are a quickly spreading and rather unknown communication phenomenon which occasionally receives attention in the mainstream press…
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Asilayi
Signal 3: Mitigating Climate Change Effects with Tiles

Signal 3: Mitigating Climate Change Effects with Tiles

It is undeniable that climate change is taking place. Flash floods arising from climate change are not just causing widespread damage to…
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Rachel Sim
Signal 2: Silver Tsunami

Signal 2: Silver Tsunami

In Signal 1, I introduced a brand-new method to quantify urban vitality, and the main variables in that model are living amenities. In this…
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Mingyi He
Road Diet: An Alternative to Traffic Improvement

Road Diet: An Alternative to Traffic Improvement

When it comes to traffic improvement, the intuition usually comes to widen the road and offering more lanes. However, this practice might…
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Wei-Yun Wang
Signal 1: Does the dockless bike-share system work?

Signal 1: Does the dockless bike-share system work?

In 2011, when Motivate, the biggest bike share company in the U.S., launched the Citi Bike in New York City, the audience was wondering if…
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Qiuyao Liu
Signal 1: Food desert and More

Signal 1: Food desert and More

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), around 23.5% of Americans live in communities without enough access to…
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Yunhe Cui
Signal 4: Sidewalk Labs & Data Governance

Signal 4: Sidewalk Labs & Data Governance

On October 15th, Sidewalk Labs (SL) attempted to address growing concerns over its data governance strategy by releasing an official…
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Cyrus Blankinship
Signal 1: Real life Lego- Stacked buildings via Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction…

Signal 1: Real life Lego- Stacked buildings via Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction…

What is it?
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Klo-e
Signal 3: Poop Map and Mobile Bathrooms in San Fransisco

Signal 3: Poop Map and Mobile Bathrooms in San Fransisco

When people talk about San Fransisco, what comes to your mind at first? Silicon Valley? Billionaires? The thing I am going to talk about is…
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Mingyi He
The Drawback of Driverless Car Already Emerge

The Drawback of Driverless Car Already Emerge

Nowadays, many technical corporations invest into the development of driverless cars, as they believe the automatic vehicle will be the…
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Xurui Chen
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