** reminder today ** ** Tuesday, 1:30p ** SPEAKER: Dr. Fabio Carrera Visiting Lecturer - MIT Urban Information Systems group Director of City Lab - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
TITLE: Knowledge Farming and the Long Tail of Small Cities TIME: Tuesday, February 20, @ 1:30p LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room ABSTRACT: The presentation will introduce the concept of "City Knowledge" and provide insights about how municipalities can get beyond the typical "hunting and gathering" of data and move towards a more sustainable "farming" of information in support of day-to-day decision-making for urban maintenance, management and planning activities. Based on hands-on experiences in cities like Venice, London and Boston, the presentation will then discuss some power-laws that suggest how and where urban data farming should be implemented to maximize the impact of these concepts for the improvement of municipal services and the benefit of urban dwellers. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org