{"593885":{"#nid":"593885","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Smart Cities Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree faculty members\u0026nbsp;from the Ivan Allen College\u0026nbsp;were featured in\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine. The story\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;\u003Cem\u003ESmart Cities Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; features the leading edge\u0026nbsp;research conducted by\u0026nbsp;Jennifer Clark, associate professor of public policy,\u0026nbsp;Christopher Le Dantec, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and\u0026nbsp;Thomas Lodato, postdoctoral fellow in the\u0026nbsp;School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECities have been around for thousands of years, so urbanization is hardly a new phenomenon\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; but it\u0026rsquo;s happening now at an unprecedented pace.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1950 about 30 percent of the world\u0026rsquo;s population lived in cities, a number that shot up to nearly 55 percent by 2016 and is expected to hit 60 percent by 2030, according to United Nations statistics. This dramatic growth brings challenges on a variety of fronts, transforming \u0026ldquo;smart cities\u0026rdquo; from a catchy phrase into a critical endeavor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead full article \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/smart-cities\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree faculty members from the Ivan Allen College were featured in an interdisciplinary article \u0026ldquo;Smart Cities Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Tech \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three faculty members from the Ivan Allen College were featured in the Georgia Tech Research Horizon magazine."}],"uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-08-01 14:21:50","changed_gmt":"2017-09-01 18:47:22","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"593887":{"id":"593887","type":"image","title":"Smart Cities","body":null,"created":"1501597389","gmt_created":"2017-08-01 14:23:09","changed":"1501597389","gmt_changed":"2017-08-01 14:23:09","alt":"Smart cities","file":{"fid":"226386","name":"smart_cities_main_image.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smart_cities_main_image.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smart_cities_main_image.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1029971,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smart_cities_main_image.png?itok=P1UlpDwx"}}},"media_ids":["593887"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"},{"id":"7909","name":"Cycling"},{"id":"175045","name":"environmental pollution"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}