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Buses are What’s Next in Transportation: But Only if Streets are Reprogrammed for Bus Rapid Transit

Buses are What’s Next in Transportation: But Only if Streets are Reprogrammed for Bus Rapid Transit

by Mary Skelton Roberts | Jan 30, 2017 | CommonWealth Series, Mobility

This is the fourth in a series entitled The Future of Mobility, a joint project of CommonWealth and Meeting of the Minds. You wait 20 minutes for a bus, only to watch three show up all at once. Soon after boarding, the glut of vehicles carrying hundreds of commuters...
Universal Basic Income: Does the Carrot Work Better than the Stick?

Universal Basic Income: Does the Carrot Work Better than the Stick?

by Heikki Hiilamo and Olli Kangas | Jan 25, 2017 | Economy, Governance, Society

Automation and robots will destroy jobs but create work. How will we secure employment in the future? Since 1970s, social policies on both sides of the Atlantic have been dominated by workfare policies where the payment of benefits is made conditional on participation...
Eight Ten Moneyball Metrics for Competitive Cities

Eight Ten Moneyball Metrics for Competitive Cities

by Stephen Jordan and Steve Rochlin | Jan 24, 2017 | Governance, Infrastructure, Society

In a world where people can increasingly choose to live anywhere, cities have to compete in ways that they never anticipated. International finance, global supply chains, connectivity, automation, rapid transit and transportation have all combined to heighten mobility...
How Philadelphia Benefits From Early Intervention With At-Risk Kids

How Philadelphia Benefits From Early Intervention With At-Risk Kids

by Frazierita Klasen | Jan 19, 2017 | Society

Programs address behavioral challenges now to help avert mental health problems later Nelson Mandela, one of the great moral voices of the 20th century, said this: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”...
San Jose Tackles Challenge of Digital Equity

San Jose Tackles Challenge of Digital Equity

by Dolan Beckel | Jan 12, 2017 | Governance, Technology

As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San José is the “center of the universe” for innovation and disruptive technologies powered by the Internet economy. The San José metro area is the most connected region in the United States according to the 2015 American Communities...
Why Cities Should Operate Their Own Top Level Domains

Why Cities Should Operate Their Own Top Level Domains

by Richard Schreier | Jan 11, 2017 | Smart Cities, Technology

When we think of destinations on the Internet, we think of web addresses that often end in “.com” or “.net” or even “.us”. These strings to the right of the dot are called “top level domains” (TLDs) and until recently the choices of available TLDs was limited. There...
Released today: Meeting of the Minds Annual Report

Released today: Meeting of the Minds Annual Report

by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Jan 10, 2017 | Announcements, Smart Cities

We are excited to release our 2016 Annual Report with results from all our year-round programming. I think you will find the Annual Report helpful as you think about Meeting of the Minds’ impact in 2016 and how to engage with the Meeting of the Minds global...
Connecting the Dots Towards Well-Being

Connecting the Dots Towards Well-Being

by Marina Recio, Kristen Lewis, and Sarah Burd-Sharps | Jan 9, 2017 | Governance, Society, Technology

Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau fields more than 130 surveys, collecting literally hundreds of millions of data points that tell us how people in our country of nearly 320 million are faring. This is not counting other public, non-governmental and private data...
Bridging Divided Cities, a Challenge to Policy-Makers and City Planners

Bridging Divided Cities, a Challenge to Policy-Makers and City Planners

by Daniel Biau | Jan 5, 2017 | Governance, Infrastructure

For the last 200 years humankind has been going through a fundamental social and demographic change: the emergence of a planet of towns and cities. This densification of human and economic relations had to be supported with increasing connectivity and mobility...
Schools Save Millions with Solar + Storage

Schools Save Millions with Solar + Storage

by John Addison | Jan 3, 2017 | Infrastructure, Resources

The 125,000 public schools in the U.S., kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12), spend $8 billion annually on energy. School districts are installing energy efficiency, solar, and energy storage to reduce energy cost, freeing more money for better education. Schools...

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