Amsterdam Smart City

The 3D Print Canal House is a ‘Research & Design by Doing’ project in which an international team of partners from various sectors works together on 3D printing a full-size canal house in Amsterdam. A beta-preneurial building project, which has the goal to revolutionize the building industry and offer new tailor made housing solutions worldwide.

There are a few characteristics shared by neighborhoods where real estate values have increased fast.

The neighborhood you choose to buy a home in may be themost significant investment decision you will ever make. Buy the right home, inthe right neighborhood, at the right time and your net worth can skyrocket.

How can you think like an investor when choosing a home and get into a“hot stock” early? That neighborhood that’s poised to take off with soaringappreciation, fueled by an underrated school system, a change in commutingbehavior or a sudden reversal in urban flight?

Using 2011–2015 metrics from Phoenix — where Opendoor launched 2 years ago — they analyzed characteristics shared by neighborhoods where real estate values have increased fastest to uncover key trends distinguishing hot neighborhoods from the rest of the pack:

· The hottest ‘hoods tend to be comprised of lessexpensive, older homes near Downtown constructed back in the 1950s, 1960s, and1970s

· Areas with a higher proportion of townhouses, lofts andmixed-use buildings appreciated much faster than areas comprised solely ofhouses

· Proximity to a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s actuallyequates with slower appreciation (a bit of a shocker, we’ll explain more later)

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Monday, May 30th

How well do you know your city?

During this night of Stadsleven 'Hidden City' hidden places are showed and unknown (war)stories are told. All your senses are used to discover the city. In short, you see the city in a way you have never seen it before.

On Monday, May 30 Tracy Metz will speak with Dagan Cohen (founder of Hidden Amsterdam), Bianca Stigter (author of the Atlas of the occupied city), Cilia Erens (sound artist), EYE, Anaïs López (documentary maker and photographer) and Eau d ' Amsterdam.

An exclusive tour is organized for Hidden City. You visit the recently opened hiding floor of Castrum Peregrini where artist Gisèle Waterschoot van der Gracht welcomed persons in hiding.

Stadsleven 'Hidden City' takes place from 8pm-10pm at De Balie. A ticket for the talk show (€10) and the tour is available at the website of De Balie.

Photo: DeBalie

Outdoor sports clubs in Amsterdam jointly invest nearly € 1 million in sustainable measures such as isolation LED lighting and energy-efficient heating.

IBM presented the advisory report of the 'Amsterdam Smarter Cities Challenge` yesterday to the Amsterdam city council.

The IBM Smarter Cities Challenge contributes the skills and expertise of top IBM talent to address the critical challenges facing cities around the world. They do this by putting teams on the ground for three weeks to work closely with city leaders and deliver recommendations on how to make the city smarter and more effective. Over the past five years, 132 cities have been selected to receive grants. The Smarter Cities Challenge is the largest philanthropic initiative belonging to IBM, with contributions valued at more than $66 million to date.

Source: Emerce, Smarter Cities Challenge report IBM
Photo: Henk Rougoor

The pigeons were sent across London.

In March, a team of 10 pigeons wearing small pollution-monitoring backpacks were sent across London. Londoners themselves are now invited to wear their own sensors to create the first human-powered air pollution monitoring network.

Nearly 9,500 people die early each year in London due to long-term exposure to air pollution — more than twice as many as previously thought, according to newresearch. Paris-based tech companyPlume Labshas created an app that helps people in polluted urban areas do something to reduce the risk of pollution-related health issues — avoiding excessive exposure at peak times, for instance. Plume Air Report, as it’s called, tells you if it’s safe to run, bike, go out with your children, or eat outside. The company relies on thousands of pollution monitoring stations around the world for data and it already works in 150 cities around the world.

Last March, Plume Labes launched in collaboration with Twitter and marketing and tech agency DigitasLBi a campaign intended to draw attention to London’s air pollution issues by releasing a flock of pollution-monitoring pigeons to map pollution in the city. As the birds flew throughout the city, Londoners could tweet to @PigeonAir to get up-to-the minute information on the air quality in their neighborhood. While the Pigeon Air Patrol was only in the skies for three days, Plume Labs turnt to humans to join the ranks.

The main goal was to inspire Londoners to join Plume’s new Air Patrol as beta testers of the air pollution-sensing device. Plume is hoping to create a network of these human sensors that will enable it to crowdsource very detailed and specific readings of air pollution to compliment the data pulled in from monitoring stations and they already use for their app.

The crowdfunding campaign set up to finance the project managed to collect the needed £10,000 in only 21 days. The project, in collaboration with Imperial College London, seeks dozens of Londoners (think cyclists, runners, pram pushers and so on) to test their wearable personal air quality sensors later this year. Problems like air pollution often seem too big to tackle, but sometimes the small scale, creative and pro-active ideas can achieve more than you’d expect. Read more information.

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