Joomla! site syndication http://www.urbanage.org 2012-02-22T23:05:04+01:00 http://www.urbanage.org http://www.urbanage.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-12-21T10:48:04+01:00 http://www.urbanage.org http://www.urbanage.org/content/view/66/51/ Release launch 6 February 2012 from Routledge/EarthscanBook website (http://www.beyondsmartcities.org/) Download Brief (images/articles/web%20page%20brief%20beyond%20smart%20cities%20and%20toc%2028%20dec%202010.doc) text/html 2011-04-04T11:53:51+01:00 http://www.urbanage.org http://www.urbanage.org/content/view/67/ Convened in Boulder, Colorado September 21-23, 2011. Urban Age’s lead partners from private sector included Toyota; Cisco; Jones Lang LaSalle; from academia, the Deming Center; and NGO Regional Plan Association. The Meeting convened 250+ leaders from a dozen countries to assess a rich variety of urban innovations enabling cities and regions to respond to their increasingly complex challenges. http://www.MeetingMinds2011.org (http://www.MeetingMinds2011.org) text/html 2011-04-09T14:07:53+01:00 http://www.urbanage.org http://www.urbanage.org/content/view/70/26/ Tim Campbell introduces and gives context to the first Meeting of the Minds. text/html 2010-02-14T10:22:42+01:00 http://www.urbanage.org http://www.urbanage.org/content/view/55/ A number of cities in the developing world have implemented innovations over the past few decades drawing on systematic learning, i.e., deliberate and continuing acquisition of knowledge often gained from outside sources, on topics such as bus rapid transit, historic preservation downtown, and participatory planning. But very many large cities lag behind or are bogged down. Why are not successes in a few places spread more rapidly? Why don’t cities learn?