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ERC grantees to discuss ‘The Human City’ at Paris science museum

12 Jul 2016

Between 19 and 21 July, ERC grantees join geographers and urban planners in France to discuss and showcase smart ideas for making the cities of the future livable. On 19 of July, Science Squared and Ecsite will kick-off a series of public dialogues at Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. The event is part of an ERC=Science² campaign The Human City , and features the quest of European ...

Smart cities

How Big Data can improve urban life

17 Jun 2016

With funding from the European Research Council, Professor Rob Kitchin of Ireland’s National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis is finding out how to leverage Big Data to improve city life.

Urban

Cities

Data

Reinventing city maps

16 Jun 2016

The traffic jam was enormous. As French winter holidaymakers headed to the Alps in February, 1980, cars strangled the city of Lyon with one of the world’s longest recorded traffic jams - a full 175 kilometres.

Combating urban noise

15 Jun 2016

Automobile air pollution is a well-recognised source of illness in urban environments. In response, smart cities monitor and move to reduce it.

Urban

Noise

Cities

Innovate now to prepare our cities for the future

2 Jun 2016

With resources and services stretched to their limits, future cities must be smarter. Cambridge professors Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the innovations in technology and governance needed to keep the megacity functional There is a clear line of sight on the broad features of the cities of the future. They will be large, with significantly more than half of the world ...

Smart cities

Programmable City

Energy

Tiny tech sleuths keep city officials honest

12 Feb 2016

Smartphone sensors are opening up new possibilities for citizen science and citizen oversight. The ERC project ‘Citizen Sensing’ is marshalling this important resource

Smart cities

Programmable City

Traffic noise is more than merely annoying, it is a cause of serious ill health

11 Feb 2016

ERC-funded research is uncovering unknown health hazards of noise. Mette Sørensen, senior researcher in the Department of Environment and Cancer at the Danish Cancer Society, says scientists have not been thorough in investigating the effect of traffic noise on other types of diseases.