The Smart City Kitchen

About: David Tuinzing

Co-Founder www.smartcitiesstrategies.com
and founder of The Smart City Kitchen. ----------------------------------------------------

David believes that collaboration between urban stakeholders is the key factor to a smart city. David advises, teaches and writes about collaborative urbanism, networked cities, change management, and social & economic development. His career combines academia and practice in consultancy projects, and involves forging partnerships between sectors, systems, projects and people.

He developed several urban recipes for urban areas like Rotterdam Central District, Kop van Zuid (Wilhelminapier), and the city of Leiden. Through studies at the University of Groningen, David has expertise and interests of both technical (spatial science) and economic (Msc. RE) systems in the city.
springwise:
“Device adds 100 smart features to any bike The reasons for commuters to get on a bike are many — expensive public transport, traffic congestion, health issues and environmental concerns. But there are also drawbacks that make people...

springwise:

Device adds 100 smart features to any bike

The reasons for commuters to get on a bike are many — expensive public transport, traffic congestion, health issues and environmental concerns. But there are also drawbacks that make people think twice, such as the number of available add-ons and extra equipment that can turn a hobby into a full time job. We’ve previously featured Merge designed by Pensa, which makes claims to being the ultimate city bike by coming packed with an array of useful accessories and cycling hacks as standard. Now Germany-based COBI has produced a single system that integrates 100 smart features into any bike without weighing it down with multiple gadgets. READ MORE…

thisbigcity:

sociology-of-space:

How making London greener could make Londoners happier – interactive map

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2014/aug/14/-sp-london-green-space-make-londoners-happier-interactive-map

London – with all its tarmac, brick and glass – is actually 38.4% open space and ranks as the world’s third greenest major city. Now Daniel Raven-Ellison wants to go further … and make Greater London a national park. His campaign and online petition aims to have the city treated in the same way as parks like the Peak District and the Brecon Beacons, to conserve its natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage. The maps below plot open space and happiness – and attempt to show how well-being would increase if London’s green space was expanded

Further evidence that a green city is a happy city. 

(via vidanacidade)

futurescope:

Singapore - The Social Laboratory

Excellent longread by Shane Harris on protection of national security & engineering a more harmonious society via mass surveillance and big data.

Singapore was the perfect home for a centrally controlled, complex technological system designed to maintain national order. […] “In Singapore, people generally feel that if you’re not a criminal or an opponent of the government, you don’t have anything to worry about.”

[Foreign Policy: The Social Laboratory]

(via humanscalecities)

Streetlight glow in the dark

Streetlight glow in the dark

thisbigcity:

Google “cities as an organism” and you’ll find everything from TED talks to blog posts to academic papers on the topic. There’s no shortage of suggestions that collective actions in cities are like an urban metabolism.

The immense amount of data generated in cities can offer us an improved understanding of how everything from water to waste to people to cargo moves around.

Which is exactly what .FABRIC and James Corner Field Operations have done as part of their new show at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, which runs until August 23rd.

Find out more about their digital mapping of Rotterdam in our latest post

(via oahficw)