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Interdisciplinary thinking: Stanford scholars and students imagine truly ‘human cities’

At Stanford, scholars and students are looking for creative ways to make cities better places for people to live and thrive – places that offer quality and affordable housing, desirable public spaces, robust transportation systems, healthy air and water, and economic promise for all.

 

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Building the city of the future — at a $41 trillion price tag

Cities around the world could spend as much as $41 trillion on smart tech over the next 20 years.When one of the largest California wildfires on record broke out in 2013, raging for more than two months and threatening San Francisco's water supply coming from Yosemite, firefighters used drones to get aerial shots of the blaze and determine the best points of entry. Now those drones have come down from the mountains and into the city.

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Apple is opening a research and development center in Shenzhen, China’s hardware mecca

Some of China’s top tech firms will soon be welcoming a famous new neighbor.

Apple has confirmed it will open a research and development center in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city that serves as a hardware manufacturing hub for the world. The center’s launch comes as Apple looks for new ways to position itself in the world’s largest consumer market, amid sputtering iPhone sales.

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USA Fellow Honored with FedScoop 50 Award

Each year, the FedScoop 50 Awards honor the best and the brightest who make the U.S. federal government more efficient and effective. These awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of those in service and acknowledge their efforts to make a positive impact in the government community and in public service. This year, David Bray (USA ’15) has been honored in the federal leadership category

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City of San Francisco and UC Berkeley to Continue Collaborating on ‘Smart Cities’

This year’s bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley to win the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge failed, but the momentum generated by the collaboration has resulted in an agreement between the city and the university to continue to explore innovative urban transportation options, and ways that technology can improve city life in general.

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