Spotlight: Mapping the future of London
Spotlight by Leaders Plus alumna Rebecca Lee of PTE, whose growing obsession with better, more collaborative digital mapping led her and FoL’s Lisa Taylor to organise the 9th Dec #MapLondon conference.
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Smart Cities are a hot topic, seemingly offering huge scope for innovation to help solve intractable urban problems. But the concept can be hard to pin down, let alone integrate into the complex work already carried out by London’s local authorities and built environment sector.
Getting started with Smart Cities projects can seem overwhelming, but there are good reasons to engage with new technologies and the possibilities they present. Smart Cities can help engage citizens and businesses, cut costs, reduce pollution, provide more accurate data for monitoring or decision-making and develop new capabilities.
Future of London’s Smarter Cities series helped London’s regeneration and built environment professionals navigate the hype to take practical steps towards setting up and managing projects which respond to their short-, medium- and long-term priorities. At the same time, the programme provided an up-to-date picture of Smart Cities adoption in London and helped Smart Cities businesses understand how to engage effectively with local authorities to develop products that will work for them.
Spotlight by Leaders Plus alumna Rebecca Lee of PTE, whose growing obsession with better, more collaborative digital mapping led her and FoL’s Lisa Taylor to organise the 9th Dec #MapLondon conference.
Future of London and LB Southwark’s 26 November event showcased innovative systems and toolkits for councils to improve development management.
Our latest Spotlight is a guest post from authors Molly Strauss, Principal Policy and Programme Officer – Growth and Infrastructure; Peter Kemp, Planning Change Manager; and Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital…
At the final event in our Smarter Cities project, we invited participants to a charrette at the Crystal to develop ‘smart’ ideas for the Royal Docks, one of London’s largest development sites.
There’s no shortage of Smart Home devices out there, from voice assistants to smart meters and system controls for heating, lighting and security. So far, these tend to be marketed…
Through a partnership with the University of Greenwich, FoL members are invited to set up bespoke research projects with data science PhD students. Make better use of data, at a fraction of the usual cost.
Our latest Smarter Cities workshop gave attendees an insight into how to get new ‘smart’ projects off the ground, and some issues to look out for.
As London grows, its infrastructure is coming under increasing strain. New infrastructure is needed to help deliver homes, move people around and improve the environment, and in a context of…
Smart Cities can be a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people. At the heart of smart cities discussions is the idea that by using new technologies we can…
Our 7 March roundtable discussed barriers to implementing new development management processes and how to overcome them.
Planning officers across London dealt with nearly 77,000 planning applications in the year to March 2016. How can boroughs manage this workload more efficiently?
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