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When the heat wave hit, anti-social behaviour such as unauthorised opening of flush and fire hydrants rose sharply in many towns and cities. This practice directly imported from the USA – street pooling – is dangerous for participants, disruptive for emergency services, expensive for local authorities, and disastrous for the environment. That adds up to a lot of disadvantages for just a little refreshment and not much more fun. In Saint-Denis last June, during the year’s first heat wave, a young 6-year-old boy was violently thrown into the air by the high-pressure spray from a fire hydrant opened for street… +

Engineering buff? In that case, you already know about BIM (Building Information Modelling) and its 3- to 7D models, but now it’s time to learn about CIM (City Information Modelling). What is it? CIM is an object-enriched, 3D Geographic Information System (GIS), which, on the scale of a neighbourhood, business park, city, conurbation, etc., provides when queried a wide range of information on these objects and others linked to them. In brief, CIM is a gigantic georeferenced database of objects and object-to-object links. Varied and updated objects A wide range of objects are integrated into a… +