by Ruth Cox | Sep 28, 2017 | Mobility
In the last several years, San Jose has become a forerunner for smart city initiatives, sustainable technology, and automated driving. Mayor Sam Liccardo launched a smart city vision early in his tenure, and in January as a part of this effort the City of San Jose...
by Jose Ramos | Sep 27, 2017 | Governance, Society
Cities are disproportionately entangled in the critical challenges that we collectively face. Cities consume disproportionate amounts of energy and produce disproportionate amounts of waste while contributing significantly to economic and racial inequality. If cities...
by Justin Bibb | Sep 26, 2017 | Governance, Technology
Articles examining how smart cities will shape the future seem to be dominating the news these days. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal dedicated an entire series to The Rise of the Smart City, which highlighted how city leaders are finding new ways to...
by Kevin Johnson | Sep 21, 2017 | Infrastructure, Technology
This article represents the views of the author only and does not represent the opinions, perspectives, or positions of organizations mentioned or cited within. All information and data shared is in the public domain. The concept of Smart Cities offers the promise of...
by Colin Harrison | Sep 20, 2017 | Society, Technology
My friend J. is dying. Or perhaps not. We don’t know. Two months ago J. was a healthy and active retiree. He looked after his grand children and took care of a large garden. Then one day he fell at home and was admitted to hospital. Suddenly this fit, former...
by Dr. Akram Boutros | Sep 18, 2017 | Society
As the public hospital in Cleveland, and one of the city’s oldest institutions, MetroHealth has spent the past 180 years, turning around the lives of patients other people didn’t want to be bothered with. One of our favorite turnarounds isn’t about a patient at all,...
by Ann Aerts | Sep 13, 2017 | Society, Technology
Cities are the future; the near future. According to WHO projections, by 2050 over two-thirds of the world’s population will live in a city. What does this mean for public health? It could be nothing short of catastrophic, placing an increasing burden on health...
by Christina Olsen | Sep 12, 2017 | Global Mobility Research, Infrastructure, Mobility
This interview series is made possible by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. Each month we feature a leading thinker from VREF’s Future Urban Transport program. Meeting of the Minds talked with Roger Behrens about planning for hybrid urban transportation...
by David Block-Schachter and Beaudry Kock | Sep 11, 2017 | CommonWealth Series, Infrastructure, Mobility
The typical urban bus stop is a miserable thing: a piece of metal attached to a pole; a strip of colored paint on a curb; a beaten up shelter. Such bad design is often compounded by locations only a vehicle could love: on lonely medians; next to terrifying off-ramps;...
by Kate Gordon | Sep 6, 2017 | Infrastructure
The United States seems to be suffering from a multiple personality disorder when it comes to climate change. On the one hand, partisan divides in Congress continue to prevent the United States from passing a comprehensive federal policy—including, but not limited to,...
by MarySue Barrett and Abaki Beck | Sep 5, 2017 | Society, Technology
Neal Sales-Griffin hasn’t always been into computers. But after graduating from Northwestern University, Sales-Griffin taught himself code. An African-American who grew up lower-income in Kenwood on the South Side of Chicago, Sales-Griffin soon realized that there...
Recent Comments