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On October 5, 2013, in Montréal, citizens like you and me will take 100 actions to improve their city and the pleasure of living there together. 100 in 1 day is an annual festival of citizen urban creations coordinated for the beautification of the city of Montreal, by carrying out 100 urban actions

"Society offers many more choices at all times, not to mention the constraints linked to sustainable development. In reality, there is less automation. In a digital society, increased personal choice can be considered a false good solution," says Antoine Picon*. For the Harvard professor,

What if all the architects in the world could integrate and model all the objects, plans, drawings that exist in the world to create the ideal universal catalogue? They dreamed about it and Polantis did it! Available for free... Read More

                  SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT and SFR BUSINESS TEAM sign a strategic partnership at the global level to develop technological solutions for the city of tomorrow, including the simplification of remote meter reading. Ondeo Systems joins forces with SFR Business Team, the French leader in the

On the way to green, healthy cities ... Milan is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. According to a study published at the end of 2009 by the Bocconi University Study Centre, a single day spent in the Italian industrial capital would be equivalent to consuming 15 cigarettes! (source :

Developed by the Universities of Saarbrücken and Munich, the "iRis" project is transforming and animating the façade of the ARS Electronica building in Linz, Austria. An augmented reality experience controlled by a simple smartphone equipped with an application controlling the building's lighting system.  

As real estate prices continue to rise and thermal regulations for new buildings are becoming more stringent, how will we be able to afford housing in the years to come? To build a house costs between 1,300 and 1,600 € per m². Imagine a system of

Labelled by the Novosphere in June 2012, the Hydrocity® project, now patented, was presented at the 14th Crossroads of Local Water Management, on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 January 2013 in Rennes. This support rewards a rainwater management concept based on the complementarity of several trades.

We are immersed in a digital world. This is profoundly transforming our lifestyles, our relationships with others, our relationship to knowledge. New questions are emerging, on the societal, economic, technological and legal levels. At the end of 2012, in the prestigious hemicycle of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, business stakeholders,

The opening of The Sustainable Design School next September marks a turning point for the city of Nice. This new establishment dedicated to innovation and sustainable design is primarily dedicated to higher education, professional training but also to carrying out projects in partnership with companies. Read More

What are digital technologies transforming to the ways of living, to the habitat, to what's inside? What new issues do they raise? What new opportunities? How can we be actors and succeed in making the inhabitant more and more in control of his home, and himself a creator of services? These are

14,000 "intelligent" street lamps will be installed in central London over the next four years There is much debate in the UK about energy saving in street lighting. London is therefore going to replace this street lighting with intelligent lighting that can be controlled via the iPad. Read More

The creator of the city of Brasilia died on Wednesday in his hometown of Rio at the age of 104. This "magician of the curve" had become a myth throughout the world, the symbol of the modern architecture of the 20th century. He had made his own the phrase of The

In the heart of the Latin Quarter, close to the Pantheon and the Sorbonne Le Seven offers a totally innovative hotel concept, far from the codes and landmarks of traditional hotels The experience starts right at the entrance where a large video screen offers incredible 3D images and continues in the lobby where you

Testifying to the transformation of this historic and popular part of the Marais into an arty, discreet and trendy district, the Hotel du Petit Moulin is a former bakery transformed into an inspired and colourful hotel thanks to the generous drawings of Christian Lacroix. Read More

Asprom and Adelit are jointly organising a seminar aimed at presenting solutions for the City of the Future on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2012 at the FIEEC, 17 rue de l'Amiral Hamelin 75116 Paris New needs have emerged in terms of energy: peak management, new distributed energies,

  The municipality of Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with IBM as part of the Smarter Cities initiative, inaugurated the Rio City Operations Centre in December 2010. This technological research centre is designed for the forecasting and control of climatic disasters (torrential rains,

Nestled in southern Sweden in the economic region of Øresund, the city of Lund has about 82,000 inhabitants and 115,000 in the municipality that bears its name. A notable industrial and business centre located 16 km from Malmö, Lund is also known for the large percentage of its population represented by

The City of Paris, in association with the Paris Region Innovation Lab and the Paris Climate Agency, has selected nineteen projects presented by eighteen companies in the framework of the call for projects on energy efficiency in buildings launched on 30 May 2012. Objective: to put companies in touch with each other

Intermodality, hybridization, electro-mobility, development of innovative vehicles, implementation of personal mobility assistants, blending the real and the virtual... The new forms of mobility are looking for a certain "ethics" - less energy and mileage consuming, calmer and more "connecting" - and are shaping the