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2012-05-13

CITE: A Scientific Ghost Town to Test Future Technology

CITE: New Mexico Ghost City Built by Pegasus Holdings Will Test Future Technology And Innovations | Technology | Sky News


A "world first" $1bn scientific ghost city will be built in New Mexico to test the latest next-generation technology.

Researchers will use the facility in Lea County, near Hobbs, to look at everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

The town will be modelled on the real city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, complete with roads, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.




CITE CITY :: Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation :: New Mexico, USA


The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE) will be the first of its kind, in scale and scope, fully integrated test, evaluation and certification facility dedicated to enabling and facilitating the commercialization of new and emerging technologies.

CITE will be modeled after a mid-sized modern American city, integrating real-world urban and suburban environments along with all the typical working infrastructure elements that make up today’s cities. This will provide customers the unique opportunity to test and evaluate technologies in conditions that most closely simulate real-world applications.

CITE Design :: Main :: Facility


CITY LAB
The hallmark of CITE is the City Lab, a full-scale, fully functional test city. City Lab will be a representative example of a modern day, mid-sized American city. It will occupy approximately 400 acres and include urban, suburban and rural zones as well as the corresponding infrastructure. City Lab will be pre-wired for data collection giving researchers the ability to simulate system-wide scenarios and then draw data from such activities.

The Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) |Services & Solutions | Pegasus Global Holdings

Pegasus Global Holdings has proposed to locate a privately financed owned & operated Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) in the State of New Mexico. With the support of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Pegasus has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state's Department of Economic Development.

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Benchmark Test & Evaluation Facilities

Green Energy

One of the fastest growing segments in energy production is focused on green technologies, but challenges still exist in the integration of these technologies into existing out dated infrastructure.  CITE will provide unique opportunities to drill down into the cost of introducing solar, wind, and Smart Grid technologies in a real world setting to help determine the next steps to success. 

Intelligent Transportation Systems

CITE will be home to a transportation highway/road network consisting of both high-speed, urban canyon, suburban and rural roads permitting testing and demonstration of new Intelligent Transportation System technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Europe and Asia. CITE will provide a highway infrastructure that will allow clients to  test and evaluate  unmanned vehicle technologies, traffic management systems, and vehicle-based applications without endangering other drivers. 

Homeland Security

Homeland security is a key component of the plan for CITE, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure.

Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure

A next-generation wireless infrastructure - terrestrial and satellite - is planned to serve  CITE, permitting the development, installation, testing and commercialization of high speed broadband technologies across all sectors of our economy, e.g. energy, transportation and security, as well as extension of such services to underserved communities

2010-09-12

Loop City a New Metro Loop in the Region of Copenhagen

Loop City: Developing World Class Infrastructure In The Suburbs Of Denmark - PSFK


As part of the 2010 Venice Biennale, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) exhibited its ambitious project called “Loop City”, a new Metro system that they hope will transform the cross border area between Sweden and Denmark into a model region by developing infrastructure for public transport, electric cars and energy exchange around all its stations.

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

AUG 27, 2010 - BIG EXHIBITS 'FROM FINGER PLAN TO LOOP CITY' IN THE DANISH PAVILION AT THE 12th VENICE BIENNALE

Opening August 27th at 4:00 PM at the Danish Pavilion. The exhibition illustrates a new Metro loop to become the development model for the cross border region, connecting the area around the Øresund Strait in a sustainable spine of public transport, energy exchange and electric car infrastructure. The Metro will be combined with the development of new programs around the stations, creating a vein of true urbanity running through the suburbs.

Arch Daily

LOOP City / BIG | ArchDaily

Currently, the industrial areas in the Copenhagen suburbs are next in line for urban development and this new light rail will connect the 20 development zones with a total area of 11 Km2.  The project will serve as the new sustainable model for the area as it will implement strategies for energy exchange, waste management, water treatment and electric car stations.  ”At certain points the rail becomes a building itself almost like a Roman aqueduct passing through the suburbs, at other points it forms small pockets of urbanity around the stations,” explained .

The proposed new light rail will create a new 50 year development perspective for a cross border region between Sweden and Denmark. Where the Finger Plan from 1947 was about connectivity from suburb to center the Loop City is linking a string of highly differentiated urban nodes, universities and working spaces in a center-less metropolitan region around a blue void. This ring, comparable in size to the San Francisco Bay area, has enough development areas to contain the growth of the region the next 50 years, and could become a model for a both sustainable, dense and super recreational development of the region.

BIG architects: finger plan to loop city at venice architecture biennale



presented at the official danish pavilion, the film was projected on a two-wall corner of the room, utilizing the three-dimensional space to fully present the scheme; a white, bridge-like structure on the floor acted as a volumetric surface to project on, resulting in a series of diagrams that seemed to be constructed and solid for the audience.


2010-03-26

GM's EN-V Pride -- Electric Concept Car For Urban Mobility

GM unveils electric concept car for mega-cities



(Reuters) - General Motors unveiled a new electric concept car in China on Wednesday , aiming to burnish its image as a supplier of non-polluting cars tailored to the crowded mega-cities of the future.


General Motors Unveils Concept Electric Car in Shanghai: Video




Clipped from: EN-V - China - NEWS


GM Unveils EN-V Concept: A Vision for Future Urban Mobility

2010-03-24
Shanghai – By 2030, urban areas will be home to more than 60 percent of the world’s 8 billion people. This will put tremendous pressure on a public infrastructure that is already struggling to meet the growing demand for transportation and basic services.
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Clipped from: EN-V - China - NEWS

        Vehicle

o   EN-V is short for Electric Networked Vehicle

o   Leverages electrification and connectivity, creating a new class of personal urban mobility

o   Connectivity separates EN-V from other electric vehicles

o   Autonomous driving, parking and retrieval with advanced sensors and drive-by-wire systems

o   Uses electricity supplied by a lithium-ion phosphate battery and can be recharged using ordinary outlets

o   Maximum speed of 40 kph and range of 40 kilometers, which is more than required by the average urban commuter

o   One-sixth the size of a regular passenger car and a 1.74-meter turning radius

o   Two-wheel drive, accommodates two passengers


Sources:
  1. GM unveils electric concept car for mega-cities | Reuters
  2. YouTube - General Motors Unveils Concept Electric Car in Shanghai: Video
  3. EN-V - China - NEWS
  4. EN-V - China - NEWS
Related:
  1. G.M. EN-V: Sharpening the Focus of Future Urban Mobility - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com
  2. GM Media - United States - News
  3. GM EN-V Concepts - 2010 Shanghai World's Fair Concepts - Automobile Magazine
  4. GM to showcase electronic concept car that can drive itself, EN-V, at 2010 World Expo
  5. GM's Car Of The Future - Forbes.com

2009-08-13

Airbia Suburban Airships


Airbia lets suburban commuters fly high
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One of the 20 outstanding finalists in ReBurbia competition, “Airbia” is ingeniously designed airship that offers an incredible flight from suburban homes to urban city centers. Alexandros Tsolakis and Irene Shamma’s creation is a transformation from the hectic and unpleasant polluted road trips to a freshening sky touching flight.
clipped from www.re-burbia.com

AIRBIA: A Suburban Airship

The proposed airship has a capacity to carry 400 people and travel with an avarage of 150 km/h speed on a hight between 30 – 500 meters. Instead of having a major airship station, Airbia proposes a more dispersed network of station-platforms, that consist of staircases, lifts and ticket spaces. This way the system becomes much more flexible, since these drop off – pick up platforms can be placed almost anywhere in the city.

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Sources:
  1. Airbia Lets Suburban Commuters Fly High - The Design blog
  2. AIRBIA: A Suburban Airship « ReBurbia
Related:
  1. Inhabitat » AIRBIA: Awesome Suburban Airships Take Flight
  2. About « ReBurbia
  3. Fantastic Global Air Charter from Zeppelin Technologies
  4. Design Concepts Re-Imagine the Dream of Suburbia | Popular Science
  5. 20 Visions of the Future of Suburbia

2009-07-14

Dustbot the Street Cleaning Robot

Clipped from: Dustbot



Networked and Cooperating Robots for Urban Hygiene

The DustBot project is aimed at designing, developing, testing and demonstrating a system for improving the management of urban hygiene based on a network of autonomous and cooperating robots, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure.



Clipped from: BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Dustbot the street cleaning robot

Dustbot the street cleaning robot

What is believed to be the world's first robot that comes to take away rubbish from your house when you want it to has been unveiled in Italy.

The Dustbot can be summoned to your address through a mobile phone any time of the day.

The robot works with a combination of GPS navigation and with a gyroscope to keep it upright. There are also a number of sensors on the machine so it does not bump into anything.

Clipped from: Dustbot Wades Through Narrow European Streets to Collect Garbage | Trends Updates

Dustbot Wades Through Narrow European Streets to Collect Garbage



The Dustbot is a midsized robot that can manoeuvre itself and collect garbage and also analyze the surrounding air. It measures sulphur oxide, benzene, nitrogen oxide and other such harmful chemicals in the air. It comes with a touch screen which allows the user to tell what kinda garbage he is being given.



Clipped from: YouTube - DustBot

DustBot

Networked and Cooperating Robots for Urban Hygiene Coolection of videos taken during the demonstration in Pontedera, Peccioli e Massa


Sources:
  1. Dustbot
  2. BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Dustbot the street cleaning robot
  3. Dustbot Wades Through Narrow European Streets to Collect Garbage | Trends Updates
  4. YouTube - DustBot
Related:
  1. Video: Dustbot takes out the Eurotrash
  2. Dustbot: a real-life Wall-E you can text

2008-12-22

Braided Urbanism

Clipped from: Dezeen » Blog Archive » Braided Urbanism by Anna Papachristoforou, Renata Paim Tourinho Dantas, Irene Guerra and Julia Cano

Four graduates from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of their thesis project, a conceptual proposal for an environment to host Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.



BRAIDED URBANISM

Tutor: Yusuke Obuchi

Understanding urbanism as the convergence of multiple, interconnected and simultaneous layers of circulation, activities, flows of people and of information, this proposal for a braided form of urbanism embeds the organizational and geometrical logics of lacing in a range of systems in which strands can be organized to obtain varied yet controllable outcomes.



Patterns emerge out of the iteration of simple twisting and knotting procedures, where local changes are able to reconfigure the overall coherence of system, as a way of organizing the city, generating of new circulatory, programmatic and spatial combinations and variations at different scales.

Clipped from: BLDGBLOG: The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins

The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins



[Image: The self-weaving complexity of I-95 and I-695, north of Baltimore].




[Image: Knot diagrams by Robert Scharein. Could we treat these as infrastructural blueprints and redesign the U.S. highway system to form a catalog of complex knots? You could then study experiential mathematics from behind the wheel of your car...].

Clipped from: Google Maps


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Related:
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Braided Urbanism by Anna Papachristoforou, Renata Paim Tourinho Dantas, Irene Guerra and Julia Cano
Architectural Association Inc
BLDGBLOG: The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins
Dror Bar-Natan's Image Gallery: Knotted Objects: Baltimore Interchange