Tag: Development
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Citizen-Centric Development: An Interview with Ken Dooley
In this interview with Ken Dooley of Granlund, we discuss sustainability from a user’s point of view and how technology will help cities become more citizen-centric. Dr. Ken Dooley is a Technology Director at Granlund in Helsinki. He has over 15 years’ experience as a consultant in the built environment and has worked in London,…
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How Machine Learning Can Help with Urban Development
An experimentation project has demonstrated the capabilities of machine learning in urban development. It used images as a starting point and came up with interesting and useful applications. “I read data science papers on how machine vision algorithms can be used with satellite imagery. I immediately saw a connection to what we had been doing,”…
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City Development with Interactive 3D Models
The Finnish city of Hyvinkää has developed a unique internet service for collaborative 3D city planning. It gives real estate owners, investors, developers, designers, authorities, and citizens easy-to-use tools to publish their 3D plans and ideas for the built city environment. Participants can comment on the 3D plans directly in the city model. The 3D…
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My Lessons Learned from Software Development
I’ve been involved in software development in both my own and our clients’ companies. There are a few things that I’ve learned over the years about software development. Perhaps you can find some of these experiences useful. I think that there are basically two paths to software development: problem-based and idea-based. Both approaches can create…
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Visible Experts and AEC: The Impact of High Profile Thought Leaders on Business Development
By: Sylvia Montgomery AEC firms have a distinct advantage when it comes to visibility. A great many other professional services providers have little more than lines of code, spreadsheets, or buried cable to put on display. High visibility projects can translate easily to visible expertise. And getting noticed is good for brand building, especially considering…
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Visible Experts and AEC: The Impact of High Profile Thought Leaders on Business Development
By: Sylvia Montgomery AEC firms have a distinct advantage when it comes to visibility. A great many other professional services providers have little more than lines of code, spreadsheets, or buried cable to put on display. High visibility projects can translate easily to visible expertise. And getting noticed is good for brand building, especially considering…
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The Importance of Town Development in the Modern Era
With rapid population growth and areas for businesses to operate on an affordable basis scarce to come by in modern times, the importance of continuous investment and development of our towns has been highlighted more so than ever before. For town planners, being able to identify not only certain areas of the urban area for…