MARK BURRY

From Shanghai to Nairobi, designers, architects, and planners are using advanced materials, smart science, and big data to make cities better than ever.

Source: 8 Cities That Show You What the Future Will Look Like | WIRED

The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole

Source: The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’ | Cities | The Guardian

The Aussie Tesla: Start-up plans to build electric cars in Australia

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-aussie-tesla-start-up-plans-to-build-electric-cars-in-australia-20180413-p4z9fj.html

IAG research says automated vehicles decades away

http://www.afr.com/brand/chanticleer/iag-research-says-automated-vehicles-decades-away-20180410-h0yk3i?btis

The struggle for Melbourne: has the world’s ‘most liveable’ city lost its way? | Cities | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/09/the-struggle-for-melbourne-has-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-lost-its-way

Australians ignorant about social media data, ACCC chief warns

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/02/australians-ignorant-about-social-media-data-accc-chief-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

14 Grand Challenges for engineers > ENGINEERING.com

https://www.engineering.com/Blogs/tabid/3207/ArticleID/644/14-Grand-Challenges-for-engineers.aspx

New data from the 2016 census shows the relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage for every region

Source: How socioeconomic disadvantage varies area-by-area in Australia | News | The Guardian

How data-driven behavioural sciences are being road tested in the political sphere.

Source: Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters’ minds

Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk unveils autonomous flying taxis | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/13/kitty-hawk-autonomous-drone-flying-taxi-service-regulatory-approval-google-larry-page