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Scientists are testing the idea that the stress of modern city life is a breeding ground for psychosis. 
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Watch CITY BENEATH THE WAVES: PAVLOPETRI Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8PM e/p on Discovery. | http://dsc.discovery.com/#mkcpgn=ytdsc1 | Watch as these divers ex... READ MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlopetri
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Noise levels, fine particulate matter, traffic volumes – these data are of interest to urban planners and residents alike. ...
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Bill Nye, the science guy, describes what the ideal city of the future would look like.
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Are the people of China actually organized in a brain-like fashion? This is not a thought experiment, but a genuine question. A silly question, you might say. But countries do tend to be cohesive complex systems that function via the movement of people, goods and information. In fact, cities are more cohesively organized than countries, and the same question can be asked of them: Are cities organized like brains?
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Instead of just basic machines, the city becomes a vast interconnected system designed for turning energy into work. Seen through that lens, cities are really giant heat engines, and that makes them creatures subject to one of the most profound principles in all of physics: the omnipresent Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Graffiti on your building? A broken traffic light? Wind-blown street lamp? Reach your government via smartphone with SeeClickFix to keep your city beautiful and safe.
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A Dutch architectural firm is working to innovate floating infrastructure which could help cities expand beyond their coastal limitations, providing citizens with more space and helping cities run better
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April 5, 2012 2:06 PM
Inpiration from the Venus Project by Jacque Fresco (Zeitgeist) : http://oxymoron-fractal.blogspot.fr/2011/05/moving-forward-les-intervenants.html
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Mapping the brain’s connections reveals a city grid like arrangement. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen.
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An operating system turns a building into a smart phone, complete with apps to run systems.
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