From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:01:30 -0400
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Subject: "Making Sense of the Science of Cities" report on Urban
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For the last few years, I have been tracking the growth of an 
exciting series multi-disciplinary research programs at some of our 
member organizations (and a number of other institutions) dealing 
with what I'll call for want of a better term "Urban Informatics". 
This deals both with the design of smart cities through information 
technologies (and other developments such as new lighting and power 
systems that integrate with information systems), and the use of 
telemetry from various systems that can be used to better understand 
and to improve urban life. The particular range of disciplines and 
balance between design and analysis varies widely from institution.

The CIties of Data project (see http://www.citiesofdata.org), which 
as I understand it is part of the overall Data and Society program 
(see http://www.datasociety.net/ )  has just issued a very useful 
report surveying these developments titled "Making Sense of the 
Science of Cities" which is available at:

http://www.citiesofdata.org/making-sense-of-the-science-of-cities/

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI