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From Monocle magazine:
inhabitants enjoyed clean air, a non-existent crime rate and a high standard of living [...] Belluno has been voted Italy’s “greenest” municipality for the past two years by environmentalists. Its citizens also have a better shot of living to a hundred than almost anywhere else in Italy [...] Belluno has spectacular views of the snow-capped Dolomites.
Further to my last post on accelerating innovation, and after reading a post on Facebook users by country I thought a bit of research was pertinent. Based on my own survey using Facebook itself, here is a list of some of the cities with the highest percentage of facebook users:
Montreal – 35.2%
Sydney – 28.4%
Toronto – 24.7%
London – 22%
Hong Kong – 18.9%
New York – 17.4%
Singapore – 14.1%
I had to remove from the list other potential candidates where Facebook didn’t breakdown their user base by city; cities in northern Europe and South America among them. Any feedback or inquiries on other cities are welcome.
One of the conclusions of my recent post about urban innovation was that growing cities need to adapt at a faster rate (innovate) as they grow to avoid stagnation. It would be a common mistake to assume that because a city is bigger it is capable of producing more ideas. The correct interpretation of the research is that since a process like innovation follows the law of increasing returns, not only a city would produce more ideas because it has more citizens, but each citizen would have to be more productive as the city grows. One must wonder how citizens can continuously become more productive in today’s world, thus enabling their cities to continue an ever expanding trend.
While the research is too general to venture into the possible ways in which such levels of productivity can be accomplished, a visualization produced by Facebook engineers provides some insight:
The linked video visualizes the interactions among Facebook users in real time. An interesting observation is the density of interactions within certain regions and among remote locations around the planet. While it is very likely the majority of these interactions are banal by nature the visualization helps me [...]
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