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Service Lab: where people imagine and design the services of tomorrow

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by Matthew Marino | 08.28.10

Service Lab is an online application conceived by the agency USER STUDIO that enables residents of Hauts-de-Garonne to design services for their territory. Introduced last July in Marseille at the LIFT conference France 2010, the application is part of an extensive program of urban renewal and social enterprise undertaken by four cities on the right bank of Bordeaux.

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The Rise and Success of QR Codes in London

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Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

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Rennes wants to get its inhabitants involved in social issues

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An experimental store for the visually impaired

Social | Anita Aaron | Il y a 8 jours et 12 heures

“Wild plants from my street”: the urban wild plant observatory

Education | goa flowers | Il y a 11 jours et 23 heures

A bicycle pump for public space

Transportation | Naor | Il y a 41 jours et 21 heures

The small Swedish town of Skellefteå is giving Silicon Valley a run for its money

Environment | Nadeem | Il y a 67 jours et 14 heures

In Nantes, l’épicier d’art sells low price artworks

Culture | korting | Il y a 89 jours et 23 heures

Smart street furniture in Paris: the winners of the call for projects are finally unveiled

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Cultural short breaks on board a 2CV soon in your city?

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Virtual high angle shot in the city of Masdar, the future eco-city of Abu Dhabi

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For sure if we aim to change our habits, urban areas have to be equipped in such a way the citizen don't feel like constrained in their everyday life.

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15.07.11 | Urban Music Game’s enhanced ball

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Robert Spizzichino | Partenaires Développement

Greater Geneva: an economic and social project at the heart of innovation

Urbanism | 12.16.11

The Greater Geneva project represents an economic and social challenge for that area spanning France and Switzerland. The aim is to set in motion again a process that will stimulate job creation in the French part and strengthen residential services in the Swiss part. Innovative activities should find their place in that territory.

Jean Haëntjens | Urbatopie

Innovation lies also in the strategy

Social | 09.08.11

Is the proliferation of urban innovations counter-productive? While some cities are experimenting with abandon and with no real apparent logic, others have adopted a long-term strategy to combine innovations to serve a smarter, more sustainable city. Jean Haëntjens returns to this forum to talk about how important it is for cities to approach innovation with consistency and control.

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Nantes imagines tomorrow’s green city

A modern-looking henhouse in the Graslin square, a tunnel greenhouse along the Erdre River, pile beehives right in the middle of a roundabout… These extravagant ideas are at the core of an urban prospective project called “Ekovores”, which has been imagined by two industrial designers from the Faltazi agency in Nantes. A virtuous programme that Nantes, which is preparing to become the green capital of Europe, is having a close look at.

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Pop-Up City , the blog of Jeroen Beekmans

Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

Urbanism | 01.05.12

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and Rotterdam-based architecture firm ZUS have launched the project I Make Rotterdam, a spectacular temporary pedestrian bridge between the city’s Central and the North districts that will be financed through crowd-funding.

Quinte & Sens , the blog of Olivier Genevois

In Caracas, mimes ease traffic tension

Education | 11.07.11

Venezuela’s capital Caracas plans to manage its traffic flow in an unusual fashion. In addition to traffic police, 120 mimes dressed up as clowns were sent into the city’s streets. Their role? Curb the risky behavior of pedestrians and drivers, not by force or repression, but through silence.

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Imagina, Monaco, Monaco.

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Innovative City, Nice, France.

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Toulouse has tackled issues ranging from urban lighting to public cleanliness with experimental innovation often on a shoestring budget, but the results continue to inspire many other cities in France and worldwide. A portrait of a city embracing urban innovation, helped along by the enthusiastic investigator Alexander Marciel, follows.