Listen: Making New York a Senior Friendly City

Following up on this month’s New York Time’s article, Brian Lehrer of New York City’s public radio station, WNYC, discusses the challenges of improving cities for the elderly with Linda Gibbs, the deputy mayor of Health and Human Services in NYC. Broadening the conversation a bit from the original New York Times article, the full [...]

New York City Aims to Improve the Lives of Elderly

The challenges associated with growing old in some of the world’s largest, fastest, most-intimidating cities are not new. Crumbling side-walks, inaccessible public restrooms, stoplights that favor cars over pedestrians are problems that can be found in most modern 21st century cities.

Parking 2.0

At Living Labs Global, we’ve already identified several innovations in the arena of automobile parking. These cover solutions such as the Municipality of Copenhagen’s text-based parking spot finding system, Estonia’s parking payment solution emt, The Netherland’s RFID-based parking payment system Park-Line, and Spot-Scout, an eBay-like exchange for renting parking spots. Of all the parking solutions [...]

WhipCar

Car sharing services like ZipCar have proven quite successful, now available in most major cities and on hundreds of university campuses. ZipCar’s model is to own, insure, and fuel its own vehicle fleet; users pay an annual membership fee and an hourly rental fee. And, as long as there’s a ZipCar near you, you’re set. [...]

Cycletracks

In November 2009, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) unveiled a new app for the iPhone and Android systems called Cycletracks.

Ray LaHood Embraces Non-motorized Transport in US

Ray LaHood, America’s Secretary of Transportation, made a surprise appearance at the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC on March 11, 2010. Speaking from atop a table in the middle of the closing reception, Secretary LaHood proclaimed, “You all know this: you have a full partner in Ray LaHood and many full partners at the [...]

Walkscore

Walkscore is a web app that calculates a 0-100 score meant to demonstrate the walkability of a neighborhood. A community that scores between 90 and 100 is deemed a “Walker’s Paradise”, scores ranging from 70-90 are very walkable, 50-70 are somewhat walkable, and scores below 50 indicate a car-dependent area.

A Museum Visit at the Airport

At the airport? Why not check out the latest exhibit? That’s right, the San Francisco International Airport is the only airport in the U.S. with a museum program accredited by the American Association of Museums. Exhibits are scattered through various terminals and change several times a month. At the moment, travelers can see 18th-century porcelain [...]

Using Cell Phones as Traffic Sensors

UC Berkeley and Nokia researchers used GPS-enabled cell phones to test a technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through traffic. Detractors, of course, are concerned about the privacy issues that arise from using GPS technology in cell phones in a pervasive manner. Check out the video below to learn how GPS in [...]

Are We About To Witness A Digital Service Revolution?

The launch of the book ”Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend” this week in London by Living Labs Global in collaborationwith Design London, heralds how introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world.

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