Category: Millennial City

Imagine the city of tomorrow, not the distant future but a decade or two from now. That city could, if we choose, be smart, connected, solar, sustainable. In fact it could be beyond sustainable. This was the assignment I took from First Utility in...

Let’s look at one of the hot topics of the day, driverless vehicles. I’ve been paying attention to this for some time, including work with the federal and state transportation agencies, and more recently the trucking industry. Bottom line is that it seems likely...

By Guest Writer: Every era of civilization is marked by a distinct style of architecture and the reason why is best summed up by Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architecture of recent times: “Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet....

Episode 2 of PopSci’s Futureopolis Podcast Talks Roadtrips and Traffic Jams Glen Hiemstra in a podcast interview by Popular Science on the future and self-driving vehicles. Quite fun.

Will cities eventually leave cars behind? You are looking at what is reputed to be the longest traffic jam in history, in China, reputed to be 62 miles long and lasting 12 days. It was caused by trucks hauling coal to Beijing. Soon Beijing...