Major City Development Forecast: Designing the Innovative Future

Designing the Future

The Futures Lab was founded within the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in the fall of 1994. The goal of the lab is develop new technology and systems to support collab-orative science. In order to meet this goal, the lab is organized around three research areas: advanced networking, multimedia, and virtual environments. The Argonne Computing and Communic...

Designing the Future

The Youth of Today Designing the Smart City of Tomorrow - Challenges to Future Mobility, Energy, and City Climate

Sustainable energy supply, mobility concepts, a healthy city climate – the next generations will face vital urban challenges. The views of the citizens of tomorrow, today’s youth, are therefore especially important when designing concepts for future urban areas that incorporate those demands. We therefore explored young pupils’ attitude to these three research areas in an empirical approach. 21...

Overweight and Obesity the Major Problem of Present and Future

There are many evidences confirming that a_ BMI more than 25 will significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular problems and related diseases. BMI more than 30 will dramatically raise mortality rate. An increase in BMI will lead to an increase of mean blood pressure and blood cholestrol, and a decrease in HDL levels. In men with morbid obesity the risk of hypertemion and/or elevated cholest...

Green and sustainable City will become the development objective of China’s Low Carbon City in future

Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming significant environmental issues in China, thus the sustainable development and revival of the country is impossible using the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. In response to the global warming, the prices of the traditional energy rise considerably, and a series of environmental...