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De Blasio Administration And Brownsville Community Leaders Announce NYCx Co-Lab Challenges In Brownsville
November 16, 2018 City invites tech community to propose and test new solutions to modernize public infrastructure, support neighborhood development, and bridge the digital divide (via the NYC Office of the Mayor). NEW YORK— Mayor Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn Borough President Eric… Continue Reading De Blasio Administration And Brownsville Community Leaders Announce NYCx Co-Lab Challenges In Brownsville
Greenhouse Gases Cut By 14% Under City Buildings Plan, Report Says
November 16, 2018 Featured by AM New York. The city’s largest buildings reduced carbon emissions by 14 percent and energy use by 10 percent between 2010 and 2015, a new report found. The “Greener, Greater Buildings Plan,” which recorded the energy and… Continue Reading Greenhouse Gases Cut By 14% Under City Buildings Plan, Report Says
How Cities Are Reworking Their Approaches To Homelessness
November 16, 2018 Featured by Smart Cities Dive. When envisioning a “smart city” of the future, it’s hard to imagine a street of driverless cars, LEED platinum buildings and homeless men and women occupying the sidewalks between the two. Yet… Continue Reading How Cities Are Reworking Their Approaches To Homelessness
Disrupting The Park Bench
November 16, 2018 Cities are getting “smarter.” But are they getting wiser? Featured in the July 2017 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. “Oh, no. My phone is dead. Better head to the park.” Walk past the basketball court down at… Continue Reading Disrupting The Park Bench
NYU Center For Urban Science And Progress Tackles Bus Reliability, Harmful Landlord Practices, With Data
November 16, 2018 MetroLab’s Innovation of the Month series, a collaboration between Government Technology and MetroLab Network which recognizes impactful tech, data and innovation projects between cities and universities, features NYU CUSP’s 2017 Urban Science Intensive projects. In this post, we spotlight projects from… Continue Reading NYU Center For Urban Science And Progress Tackles Bus Reliability, Harmful Landlord Practices, With Data
2017 Urban Science Intensive Capstone Presentations
On July 31st, the CUSP community came together for the 2017 Urban Science Intensive Capstone Presentations. NYU CUSP’s Urban Science Intensive (USI) Capstone program brings together student teams with government agencies or research partners to address real-world urban challenges through data. Continue Reading 2017 Urban Science Intensive Capstone Presentations
Hey MTA: Here Are Five Qualities of a Useful Transit Dashboard
November 16, 2018 Featured by Transit Center. Pledges made earlier this summer by Governor Cuomo and MTA chair Joe Lhota about fixing NYC’s subways and reforming the MTA are falling like dominoes. In June, Lhota pledged a “top to bottom audit… Continue Reading Hey MTA: Here Are Five Qualities of a Useful Transit Dashboard
TLC Mentors Students Using Big Data
November 16, 2018 The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) features their work with CUSP graduate students during the Urban Science Intensive (USI) capstone program. When you get in a yellow or green taxi in New York City,… Continue Reading TLC Mentors Students Using Big Data
Christine Quinn Explains How Technology Can Help Fight Homelessness
November 16, 2018 Technical.ly Brooklyn features how NYU CUSP is helping the former speaker of New York City Council build the first “smart shelter” in the country. It seems, sometimes, that the pace of technology moves at different speeds across society.… Continue Reading Christine Quinn Explains How Technology Can Help Fight Homelessness
Urban Informatics Offers Partnership Opportunities Between Institutions, Cities
November 16, 2018 Education Dive features an interview with NYU CUSP Professor Constantine Kontokosta. In 2012, New York’s then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed colleges and universities around the world submit ideas for an applied science campus which would act as an engine… Continue Reading Urban Informatics Offers Partnership Opportunities Between Institutions, Cities
The New Urban Science
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Mosher Street, on the west side of Baltimore, could serve as the set for a feature film on urban entropy. Drive through and you’ll see block after block of century-old… Continue Reading The New Urban Science
How An NYU Professor Captured The Densest-Ever Public Aerial Lidar Data
November 16, 2018 Spar3D features Professor Debra Laefer’s research on the world’s densest urban aerial lidar data set. Recently professor Debra F. Laefer, with NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress–released what the center is calling the world’s densest urban… Continue Reading How An NYU Professor Captured The Densest-Ever Public Aerial Lidar Data
NYU Releases The Densest LiDAR Dataset Ever To Help Urban Development
November 16, 2018 Technical.ly Brooklyn features Professor Debra Laefer’s research on the world’s densest urban aerial lidar data set. New York University has made available the densest public LiDAR data set ever collected, via its Center for Urban Science and Progress.… Continue Reading NYU Releases The Densest LiDAR Dataset Ever To Help Urban Development
Sounds Of NYC Project Aims To Dull Noises In The City That Never Sleeps
November 16, 2018 Featured by Smart Cities Dive. With so much noise pollution in New York, it’s easy to understand why it’s the city that never sleeps. The city’s civil complaint line gets more calls about noise than any other… Continue Reading Sounds Of NYC Project Aims To Dull Noises In The City That Never Sleeps
Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision: Why His “Boring Company” Underground Traffic Solution Is A Bad Idea
November 16, 2018 Professor Kaan Ozbay is quoted in an article by Salon. Elon Musk revealed recently more details about his proposal to solve traffic gridlock by creating an elaborate 3D matrix of subterranean highways that would whisk cars around on electrified… Continue Reading Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision: Why His “Boring Company” Underground Traffic Solution Is A Bad Idea